Exam question 2 · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

State the number of grinding teeth employed simultaneously by a single mammoth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, grind, employ · To what, where: number, grinding teeth

This is exam question 2 of lesson 385 «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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	_	6 teeth	case
5	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 teeth	amod
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 teeth	acl
8	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	_	7 employed	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 mammoth	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mammoth	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mammoth	amod
12	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employed	obl
13	.	.	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 grinding teeth		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	grind	gerund				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	employ	participle		grinding teeth not said here	by a single mammoth; simultaneously property	vn hire-13.5.3 «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

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Thirty-two

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

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

Option 4

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	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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