Exam question 4 · Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory

State the approximate duration of gestation in the elephant, being the longest among terrestrial animals.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 duration	compound
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	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gestation	case
6	gestation	gestation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 duration	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 elephant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 elephant	det
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gestation	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 longest	punct
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 longest	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 longest	det
13	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 duration	conj
14	among	among	ADP	_	16 animals	case
15	terrestrial	terrestrial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animals	amod
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 longest	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 duration	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						among terrestrial animals; long property	tree rules

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

Twenty-two months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Three months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Nine months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	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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