Exam question 1 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant…

Ascertain the approximate interval between the scientific description of Steller's sea cow and its extinction.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, description · What happens: ascertain, describe, extinguish · To what, where: approximate interval, sea cow

This is exam question 1 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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	4 interval	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 interval	amod
4	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	8 description	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 description	det
7	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 description	amod
8	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interval	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 cow	case
10	Steller	Steller	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cow	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Steller	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cow	compound
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 description	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 extinction	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 extinction	nmod:poss
16	extinction	extinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cow	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate interval	between the scientific description of Steller's sea cow and description's extinction	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic
2	describe			Steller's sea cow and description's extinction		nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	extinguish		description			nom extinction «state transitive»: poss=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

Two thousand seven hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Two hundred and seventy years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seventy	cc
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-seven years

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	_	4 years	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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