Exam question 3 · The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides…

Ascertain the approximate distance at which the roar of a lion may be heard.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, lion · What happens: ascertain, hear, roar · To what, where: approximate distance, roar

This is exam question 3 of lesson 18 «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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 distance	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distance	amod
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 heard	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roar	det
8	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 lion	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lion	det
11	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roar	nmod
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 heard	aux:pass
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 distance	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate distance		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic
2	hear	may · passive		the roar of a lion	at the approximate distance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	roar		a lion			nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent

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

Approximately eight kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 eight	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

It is audible only within the immediate pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 audible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 audible	cop
3	audible	audible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 pride	advmod
5	within	within	ADP	_	8 pride	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pride	det
7	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pride	amod
8	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 audible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					within the immediate pride; audible property	tree rules

Option 3

Approximately eighty kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 eighty	advmod
2	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately eighty metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 eighty	advmod
2	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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