Exam question 4 · The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and…

Ascertain the approximate number of species of wild cat presently recognised.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, recognise · To what, where: approximate number, wild cat

This is exam question 4 of lesson 82 «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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	of	of	ADP	_	6 species	case
6	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cat	amod
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 species	nmod
10	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 recognised	advmod
11	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cat	acl
12	.	.	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 number of species of wild cat					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	recognise	participle		wild cat not said here				presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

About four in all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 four	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 forty	advmod
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

About four hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	four	four	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 4

About four thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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