Exam question 4 · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…

Compute the aggregate number of stomach chambers possessed by two cows and one alpaca.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: compute, possess · To what, where: aggregate number, stomach chambers

This is exam question 4 of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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	Compute	compute	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	compound
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compute	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 chambers	case
6	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chambers	compound
7	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
8	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chambers	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 cows	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cows	nummod
11	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 possessed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 alpaca	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 alpaca	nummod
14	alpaca	alpaca	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cows	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Compute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compute	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of stomach chambers					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Result
2	possess	participle		stomach chambers not said here				by two cows and one alpaca	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

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	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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