Exam question 2 · Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern…

Ascertain the approximate age of a tree whose felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, tree · What happens: ascertain, fell, exhibit · To what, where: approximate age

This is exam question 2 of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 age	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 age	amod
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 age	nmod
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 exhibits	nmod:poss
9	felled	fell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 exhibits	amod
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exhibits	compound
11	exhibits	exhibit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tree	nmod
12	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 rings	nummod
13	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rings	amod
14	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 exhibits	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate age of a tree a tree felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings's felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic
2	fell	participle			tree rules
3	exhibit		a tree a tree felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings's felled trunk exhibits sixty annual rings		nom exhibit «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 six hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately one hundred and twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 twenty	cc
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	conj
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately sixty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 sixty	advmod
2	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	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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