Exam question 2 · Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands

State the number of bones of which a single human hand is composed, the wrist included.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wrist · What happens: state, compose, include · To what, where: number, single human hand

This is exam question 2 of lesson 358 «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» 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	13 composed	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hand	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 composed	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 composed	aux:pass
13	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bones	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 included	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wrist	det
16	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 included	nsubj
17	included	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 composed	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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		a single human hand	of bones	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	include	past	the wrist			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Fifty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj

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

Option 3

Fourteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-seven

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

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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