Exam question 2 · Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and A…

Ascertain the aggregate number of fingers and toes possessed by a single chimpanzee.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, possess · To what, where: aggregate number, fingers

This is exam question 2 of lesson 387 «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» 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 number	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	compound
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fingers	case
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 toes	cc
8	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fingers	conj
9	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fingers	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 chimpanzee	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chimpanzee	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chimpanzee	amod
13	chimpanzee	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 possessed	obl
14	.	.	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 aggregate number of fingers and toes					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	possess	participle		fingers and toes not said here				by a single chimpanzee	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Eighteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	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 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	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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