Exam question 4 · Trees

Ascertain the proportion of the land surface of the Earth covered by tropical rainforests.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, cover · To what, where: proportion, land surface

This is exam question 4 of lesson 60 «Trees» 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 proportion	det
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 surface	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 surface	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 surface	compound
7	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proportion	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 surface	nmod
11	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 surface	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 rainforests	case
13	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rainforests	amod
14	rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 covered	obl
15	.	.	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 proportion of the land surface of the Earth					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic
2	cover	participle		the land surface of the Earth not said here				by tropical rainforests	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Approximately one half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 half	nummod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately six per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately one per thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 per	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 per	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 per	flat

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

Option 4

Approximately ninety per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 ninety	advmod
2	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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