Exam question 2 · Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks

State the number of cervical vertebrae, hereinafter referred to as neck bones, possessed by the giraffe.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, refer, possess · To what, where: number, hereinafter, cervical vertebrae

This is exam question 2 of lesson 278 «Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks» 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	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 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 vertebrae	case
5	cervical	cervical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vertebrae	amod
6	vertebrae	vertebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hereinafter	punct
8	hereinafter	hereinafter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vertebrae	conj
9	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hereinafter	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 referred	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 bones	case
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bones	compound
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 referred	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 possessed	punct
15	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 vertebrae	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 giraffe	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giraffe	det
18	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 possessed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of cervical vertebrae and hereinafter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	refer	participle		hereinafter not said here	as neck bones	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	possess	participle		cervical vertebrae and hereinafter not said here	by the giraffe	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Seventy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Seventeen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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