Exam question 4 · How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing

Ascertain the approximate daily duration of sleep and rest in the domestic cat.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: approximate daily duration

This is exam question 4 of lesson 119 «How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing» 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	5 duration	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 duration	amod
4	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 duration	amod
5	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duration	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rest	cc
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duration	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 cat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cat	det
12	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cat	amod
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nmod
14	.	.	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 daily duration of sleep and rest in the domestic cat					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=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 · ✓ the right answer

Between twelve and sixteen hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Between	between	ADP	_	2 twelve	case
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sixteen	cc
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 twelve	conj
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Twenty-four hours without interruption

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hours	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 interruption	case
6	interruption	interruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hours	nmod

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

Option 3

Between four and six hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Between	between	ADP	_	5 hours	case
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 six	cc
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 four	conj
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Between one and two hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Between	between	ADP	_	5 hours	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 two	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 one	conj
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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