Exam question 4 · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light
It is given that two nine-banded armadillos produce litters of the customary size. Ascertain the aggregate number of offspring.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two banded armadillos, you · What happens: give, produce, ascertain · To what, where: It, litters, aggregate number
This is exam question 4 of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 two nine-banded armadillos produce litters of the customary size.
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 | _ | 10 produce | mark |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 armadillos | nummod |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 nine | punct |
| 8 | banded | banded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 armadillos | amod |
| 9 | armadillos | armadillo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 produce | nsubj |
| 10 | produce | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | litters | litter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 produce | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 size | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 size | det |
| 14 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 size | compound |
| 15 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 litters | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | produce | present | two banded armadillos | litters of the customary size | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Result |
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: Ascertain the aggregate number of offspring.
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 offspring | case |
| 6 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | 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 offspring | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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 3
Eighteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | 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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