Exam question 2 · How close are apes to us?

Ascertain the number of chromosomes contained in a human cell and in a cell of a chimpanzee respectively.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, contain · To what, where: number, chromosomes, human cell

This is exam question 2 of lesson 17 «How close are apes to us?» 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	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 chromosomes	case
5	chromosomes	chromosome	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chromosomes	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 cell	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cell	det
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cell	amod
10	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contained	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cell	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cell	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cell	det
14	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cell	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 chimpanzee	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chimpanzee	det
17	chimpanzee	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cell	nmod
18	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	17 chimpanzee	advmod
19	.	.	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 number of chromosomes					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	contain	participle		chromosomes not said here		a human cell and a cell of a chimpanzee			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cell=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

Forty-eight and forty-six respectively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eight	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 six	cc
5	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 six	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 forty	punct
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eight	conj
8	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	7 six	advmod

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

Option 2

Twenty-three and twenty-four respectively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 three	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 four	cc
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 four	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj
8	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	7 four	advmod

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

Option 3

Forty-six in each instance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 instance	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 instance	det
6	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 six	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Forty-six and forty-eight respectively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eight	cc
5	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 eight	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 eight	punct
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj
8	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	7 eight	advmod

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

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