Exam question 4 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a…

Ascertain the cardinality of the dentition of an adult domestic dog.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: cardinality

This is exam question 4 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 cardinality	det
3	cardinality	cardinality	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dentition	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dentition	det
6	dentition	dentition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cardinality	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 dog	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dog	nsubj
10	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dentition	nmod
12	.	.	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 cardinality of the dentition of a domestic dog					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cardinality=Topic

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

Thirty teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 teeth	nummod
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Thirty-two teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 teeth	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Forty-two teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 teeth	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Twenty-eight teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eight	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 teeth	nummod
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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