Exam question 4 · Soccer, American football and baseball

Ascertain the number of points awarded for a touchdown in American football.

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 248 «Soccer, American football and baseball» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 points	case
5	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	awarded	award	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 points	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 touchdown	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 touchdown	det
9	touchdown	touchdown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 awarded	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 football	case
11	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 football	amod
12	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touchdown	nmod
13	.	.	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 number of points					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	award	participle		points not said here				for a touchdown in American football goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for touchdown=Goal

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

Three points

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 points	nummod
2	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten points

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 points	nummod
2	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

One point

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 point	nummod
2	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Six points

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 points	nummod
2	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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