Exam question 4 · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?

Ascertain the approximate ratio of the mass of an adult domestic cat to that of a house mouse.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: approximate ratio

This is exam question 4 of lesson 118 «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ratio	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ratio	amod
4	ratio	ratio	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 mass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mass	det
7	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ratio	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 cat	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cat	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cat	nsubj
11	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cat	amod
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mass	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 cat	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 mouse	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mouse	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mouse	compound
18	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 that	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate ratio of the mass of a domestic cat to that					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ratio=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Approximately one to one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 one	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately two hundred to one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Approximately two to one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 two	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Approximately twenty thousand to one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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