Exam question 3 · The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans

Ascertain the approximate duration for which a young orangutan remains in the company of its mother.

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 16 «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» 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 duration	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duration	amod
4	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 remains	det
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 orangutan	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 orangutan	amod
9	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remains	compound
10	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 duration	appos
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 company	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 company	det
13	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remains	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 company	nmod
17	.	.	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 duration					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

Approximately seven to eight weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 seven	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 weeks	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 eight	case
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seven	nmod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Approximately thirty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 thirty	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	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 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately seven to eight years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 seven	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 eight	case
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seven	nmod
5	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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