Exam question 3 · Birds of prey and owls

Ascertain the maximal velocity attained by the peregrine falcon in its stoop.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, falcon · What happens: ascertain, attain, stoop · To what, where: maximal velocity

This is exam question 3 of lesson 34 «Birds of prey and owls» 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 velocity	det
3	maximal	maximal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 velocity	compound
4	velocity	velocity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 velocity	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 falcon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 falcon	det
8	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falcon	compound
9	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attained	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 stoop	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stoop	nmod:poss
12	stoop	stoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falcon	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the maximal velocity		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent velocity=Topic
2	attain	participle		the maximal velocity not said here	by the peregrine falcon in falcon's stoop	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stoop		falcon			nom stoop «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Approximately sixty kilometres per hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 sixty	advmod
2	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	per	per	ADP	_	5 hour	case
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kilometres	nmod

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

Option 2

Approximately three thousand kilometres per hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kilometres	nummod
4	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	per	per	ADP	_	6 hour	case
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kilometres	nmod

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

Option 3

Approximately thirty kilometres per hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 thirty	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	per	per	ADP	_	5 hour	case
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kilometres	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In excess of three hundred kilometres per hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 excess	case
2	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 kilometres	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kilometres	nummod
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 excess	nmod
7	per	per	ADP	_	8 hour	case
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kilometres	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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