Exam question 2 · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin…

Ascertain the approximate number to which honeybees have been shown to count landmarks under experimental conditions.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, show, count · To what, where: approximate number, honeybees, landmarks, experimental conditions

This is exam question 2 of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 number	amod
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 shown	obl
7	honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shown	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shown	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 shown	aux:pass
10	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 number	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 count	mark
12	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shown	xcomp
13	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 count	obj
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 conditions	case
15	experimental	experimental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 conditions	amod
16	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 count	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate number			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	show	present · perfect · passive		honeybees		to the approximate number	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	count	to-infinitive		landmarks	experimental conditions		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmark=Theme

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

Forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	Number=Sing	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

Only one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

One hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod

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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