Exam question 1 · The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs

State the cardinality of the set of real, living kinds of animal represented in the Chinese zodiac.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, live, represent · To what, where: cardinality, animal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 382 «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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 cardinality	det
3	cardinality	cardinality	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 set	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 set	det
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cardinality	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 kinds	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kinds	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 living	punct
10	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kinds	amod
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 animal	case
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kinds	nmod
14	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 animal	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 zodiac	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 zodiac	det
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 zodiac	amod
18	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 represented	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the cardinality of the set of real living kinds of animal		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cardinality=Topic
2	live	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	represent	participle		animal not said here	in the Chinese zodiac	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in zodiac=Attribute

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

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 2 · ✓ 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.

Option 3

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 4

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.

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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