Exam question 4 · The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest…

Given that each of four forest elephants bears two tusks, determine the aggregate number of tusks.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: each · What happens: give, determine · To what, where: aggregate number

This is exam question 4 of lesson 159 «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 determine	mark
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 determine	nsubj:outer
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 bears	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bears	nummod
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bears	compound
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bears	compound
8	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 each	nmod
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 tusks	nummod
10	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bears	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 each	punct
12	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Given	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 number	det
14	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 number	compound
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 determine	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 tusks	case
17	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 number	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	determine	infinitive	each	the aggregate number of tusks					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

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 2 · ✓ 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 3

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 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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