Exam question 2 · How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses,…

Ascertain the approximate daily duration of sleep reported for wild elephants in Africa.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, report · To what, where: approximate daily duration

This is exam question 2 of lesson 390 «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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	5 duration	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 duration	amod
4	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 duration	amod
5	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duration	nmod
8	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 duration	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 elephants	case
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 elephants	amod
11	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reported	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Africa	case
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 elephants	nmod
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 approximate daily duration of sleep					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	report	participle		the approximate daily duration of sleep not said here				for wild elephants in Africa	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for elephant=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

Six hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Twenty hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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