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Exam question 3 · Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mu…

It is given that the height of a horse is recorded as fifteen hands. Ascertain the approximate height to the summit of its shoulders.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, record, ascertain · To what, where: It, height, approximate height

This is exam question 3 of lesson 208 «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that the height of a horse is recorded as fifteen hands.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 recorded	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 height	det
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recorded	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 height	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 recorded	aux:pass
11	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hands	nummod
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 recorded	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	record	present · passive		the height of a horse				as fifteen hands	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Ascertain the approximate height to the summit of its shoulders.

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 height	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 height	amod
4	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 summit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 summit	det
7	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 shoulders	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoulders	nmod:poss
10	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 summit	nmod
11	.	.	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 height				to the summit of height's shoulders	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Fifteen metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 metres	nummod
2	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

One hundred and fifty metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 metres	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One hundred and fifty centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 centimetres	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Fifteen centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 centimetres	nummod
2	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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