Exam question 4 · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore

Ascertain the aggregate number of legs, inclusive of claws, possessed by four crabs, each bearing two claws and eight walking legs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, each · What happens: ascertain, possess, bear, walk · To what, where: aggregate number, claws, two claws

This is exam question 4 of lesson 9 «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	compound
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 legs	case
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 inclusive	punct
8	inclusive	inclusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legs	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 claws	case
10	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 inclusive	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 possessed	punct
12	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 claws	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 crabs	case
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 crabs	nummod
15	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 possessed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bearing	punct
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 bearing	nsubj
18	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ascertain	advcl
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 claws	nummod
20	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bearing	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 legs	cc
22	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 legs	nummod
23	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 legs	amod
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 claws	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of legs		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	possess	participle		claws not said here	by four crabs	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	bear	gerund	each	two claws and eight walking legs		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient
4	walk	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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

Eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

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 3 · ✓ the right answer

Forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Thirty-six

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 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	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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