Exam question 4 · The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life

Ascertain the approximate number of lions remaining in the wild.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lions · What happens: ascertain, remain · To what, where: approximate number, wild

This is exam question 4 of lesson 124 «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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 number	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 number	amod
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lions	case
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lions	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wild	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wild	det
10	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remaining	obl
11	.	.	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 number of lions					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	remain	gerund	lions not said here			the wild			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location

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 five hundred thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 thousand	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thousand	compound
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately two hundred

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately twenty to twenty-five thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	7 thousand	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 five	case
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 five	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 twenty	punct
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 twenty	nmod
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately two million, spread across all of Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 spread	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spread	punct
5	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 spread	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	participle · passive		two million		all			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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