Exam question 1 · Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs

State the number of bones of which the human skull is composed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, compose · To what, where: number, human skull

This is exam question 1 of lesson 357 «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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	_	5 bones	case
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 composed	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skull	det
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skull	amod
10	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 composed	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 composed	aux:pass
12	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bones	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of bones					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	compose	present · passive		the human skull				of bones	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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

Eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-two

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 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 3

Thirty-three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 three	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj

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

Option 4

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	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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