Exam question 4 · Myth check: are bats blind?

Given that each of four bats possesses the customary number of wings, determine the aggregate number of wings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: each, you · What happens: give, possess, determine · To what, where: customary number, aggregate number

This is exam question 4 of lesson 153 «Myth check: are bats blind?» 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 possesses	mark
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 possesses	mark
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 possesses	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bats	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bats	nummod
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 each	nmod
7	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 determine	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 number	det
9	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 number	compound
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possesses	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wings	case
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 number	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 determine	punct
14	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 number	det
16	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 number	compound
17	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 determine	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wings	case
19	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 number	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	participle			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	possess	present	each	the customary number of wings	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Theme
3	determine	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of wings	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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

Eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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