Exam question 4 · The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccup…
Ascertain the duration of handwashing with soap recommended for the removal of most germs.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, duration · What happens: ascertain, handwash, recommend, remove · To what, where: duration, soap, most germs
This is exam question 4 of lesson 364 «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 | 3 duration | det |
| 3 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 handwashing | mark |
| 5 | handwashing | handwash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 duration | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 soap | case |
| 7 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handwashing | obl |
| 8 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 soap | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 removal | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 removal | det |
| 11 | removal | removal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recommended | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 germs | case |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 germs | amod |
| 14 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 removal | nmod |
| 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 duration | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | handwash | gerund | the duration not said here | with soap | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recommend | participle | soap not said here | for the removal of most germs | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for removal=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | remove | most germs | nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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
No duration, water alone being sufficient
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 duration | det |
| 2 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sufficient | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 duration | conj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 water | advmod |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sufficient | cop |
| 7 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | no duration and water | sufficient property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Approximately twenty seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 twenty | advmod |
| 2 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 seconds | nummod |
| 3 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Approximately one hour on each occasion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 hour | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hour | nummod |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 occasion | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 occasion | det |
| 6 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hour | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Approximately one second only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 second | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 second | nummod |
| 3 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 second | advmod |
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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