Exam question 2 · Olympiad: the Spelling Bee

Ascertain the number of instances of the letter "c" in the correctly spelled word "necessary".

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 55 «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 instances	case
5	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 letter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 letter	det
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instances	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 c	punct
10	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 letter	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 c	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 word	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 word	det
14	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	15 spelled	advmod
15	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 word	amod
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 letter	nmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 necessary	punct
18	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 word	appos
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 necessary	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of instances of the letter in the spelled word		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	spell	participle			correctly property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent
3	instance			the letter in the spelled word		nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient

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

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

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 3

None

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	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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