Exam question 3 · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

Ascertain the aggregate number of legs possessed by three insects together with two scorpions.

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 legs	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 insects	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 insects	nummod
10	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 possessed	obl
11	together	together	ADV	_	7 possessed	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 scorpions	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 scorpions	nummod
14	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 possessed	obl
15	.	.	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 legs					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	possess	participle		legs not said here				by three insects; with two scorpions; together property	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

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 2

Twenty-eight

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 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 3

Thirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thirty-four

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 four	punct
3	four	four	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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