Exam question 2 · The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep…

Ascertain the aggregate number of hearts possessed by three octopuses.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, possess · To what, where: aggregate number, hearts

This is exam question 2 of lesson 92 «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 hearts	case
6	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hearts	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 octopuses	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 octopuses	nummod
10	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 possessed	obl
11	.	.	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 aggregate number of hearts					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	possess	participle		hearts not said here				by three octopuses	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Twenty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 2

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	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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