Exam question 3 · Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise

Ascertain the normal temperature of the human body, expressed in degrees Celsius.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, express · To what, where: normal temperature, degrees

This is exam question 3 of lesson 72 «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» 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 temperature	det
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 temperature	amod
4	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 temperature	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expressed	punct
10	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 temperature	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 degrees	case
12	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 expressed	obl
13	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 degrees	nmod:unmarked
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 normal temperature of the human body					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Topic
2	express	participle		the normal temperature of the human body not said here		degrees Celsius			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 thirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 thirty	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately one hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately thirty-seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 seven	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 seven	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 thirty	punct
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately forty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 forty	advmod
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 two	punct
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forty	flat

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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