Exam question 1 · Babies, button batteries and magnets
Ascertain, in respect of a button battery that has been swallowed, the approximate period within which it may burn through the throat.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, period · What happens: ascertain, swallow, burn, respect · To what, where: respect, button battery, throat
This is exam question 1 of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 respect | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 respect | case |
| 4 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 battery | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 battery | det |
| 7 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 battery | compound |
| 8 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 respect | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 swallowed | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 battery | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 period | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 period | det |
| 15 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 period | amod |
| 16 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 respect | conj |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 burn | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 burn | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 burn | aux |
| 21 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 period | acl:relcl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 throat | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 throat | det |
| 24 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burn | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | respect of a button battery and the approximate period | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Topic | ||||
| 2 | swallow | present · perfect · passive | a button battery | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | burn | may | period | the throat | within the approximate period | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location | |||
| 4 | respect | a button battery | nom respect «cognition 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
About two months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About two hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About two whole weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weeks | amod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About two full days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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