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Exam question 4 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth

It is given that the gestation of the elephant is the longest of any land animal. State its approximate duration.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gestation · What happens: give, be · To what, where: It

This is exam question 4 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that the gestation of the elephant is the longest of any land animal.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 longest	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gestation	det
6	gestation	gestation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 longest	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 elephant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 elephant	det
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gestation	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 longest	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 longest	det
12	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 given	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 animal	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 animal	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 animal	compound
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 longest	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	the gestation of the elephant					of any land animal; long property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: State its approximate duration.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 duration	nmod:poss
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duration	amod
4	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-two months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Nine months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	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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