Exam question 4 · The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor

Ascertain the number of legs possessed by a centipede bearing twenty-three pairs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, centipede · What happens: ascertain, possess, bear · To what, where: number, legs, three pairs

This is exam question 4 of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 legs	case
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 legs	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 centipede	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 centipede	det
9	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possessed	obl
10	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 centipede	acl
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 three	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 twenty	punct
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pairs	nummod
14	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bearing	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of legs		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	possess	participle		legs not said here	by a centipede	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	bear	gerund	a centipede not said here	three pairs		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient

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-four

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 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj

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

Option 2

Twenty-three

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Forty-six

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

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

Option 4

One hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod

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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