Exam question 4 · Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattl…
Ascertain the approximate proportion of snake species that are seriously dangerous to human beings.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, snake species · What happens: ascertain, be · To what, where: approximate proportion
This is exam question 4 of lesson 322 «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» 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 proportion | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 proportion | amod |
| 4 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 species | case |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 species | compound |
| 7 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 proportion | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 dangerous | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dangerous | cop |
| 10 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 11 dangerous | advmod |
| 11 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 species | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 beings | case |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beings | amod |
| 14 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dangerous | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 proportion of snake species | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | snake species | to human beings; dangerous, seriously 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
About two hundred out of some four thousand species
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 species | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 species | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 species | det |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thousand | compound |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 species | nummod |
| 9 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hundred | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No species whatsoever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 species | det |
| 2 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 2 species | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Every species without exception
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 species | det |
| 2 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 exception | case |
| 4 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 species | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About three thousand out of some four thousand species
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thousand | compound |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 species | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 species | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 species | det |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thousand | compound |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 species | nummod |
| 9 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thousand | 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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