Exam question 4 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

Ascertain the number of teeth comprising the first, or milk, dentition of a human child.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, teeth · What happens: ascertain, comprise · To what, where: number, first

This is exam question 4 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 teeth	case
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	comprising	comprise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 teeth	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 first	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 comprising	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 milk	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 milk	cc
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comprising	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dentition	punct
13	dentition	dentition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 milk	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dentition	nmod
18	.	.	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 number of teeth					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	comprise	gerund	teeth not said here	the first				milk and dentition of a human child obl	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme first=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

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 2 · ✓ 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.

Option 3

Twenty-four

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	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 4

Twenty-eight

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	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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