Exam question 4 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text
Whereas a table records twelve degrees for Monday and fifteen degrees for Tuesday, determine which day was the warmer.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: day · What happens: record, determine, be · To what, where: twelve degrees
This is exam question 4 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English 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 | Whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 3 table | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 records | obl |
| 4 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 degrees | nummod |
| 6 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 records | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Monday | case |
| 8 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 records | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 degrees | cc |
| 10 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 degrees | nummod |
| 11 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Monday | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Tuesday | case |
| 13 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 degrees | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 determine | punct |
| 15 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 records | conj |
| 16 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 warmer | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 warmer | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 warmer | det |
| 20 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 determine | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 records | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present | twelve degrees | monday | whereas a table | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | |||
| 2 | determine | present | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | which day | warm 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Monday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Tuesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Neither, the temperatures being equal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 equal | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 temperatures | det |
| 4 | temperatures | temperature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 equal | nsubj |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 equal | cop |
| 6 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the temperatures | equal, neither property | tree rules |
Option 4
Indeterminable from tabulated data
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indeterminable | indeterminable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 data | case |
| 3 | tabulated | tabulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 data | amod |
| 4 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Indeterminable | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tabulate | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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