Exam question 1 · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing

Identify the minimum thickness of ice upon which one may skate.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one · What happens: identify, skate · To what, where: minimum thickness

This is exam question 1 of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thickness	det
3	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thickness	amod
4	thickness	thickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thickness	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 skate	obl
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skate	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 skate	aux
11	skate	skate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ice	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the minimum thickness of ice					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thickness=Theme
2	skate	may	one					upon ice	vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

No minimum is required

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 minimum	det
2	minimum	minimum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 required	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 required	aux:pass
4	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		no minimum					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

Option 2

At least two centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 centimetres	nmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 centimetres	nummod
4	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

At least one centimetre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	nmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 centimetre	nummod
4	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

At least ten centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 ten	nmod
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 centimetres	nummod
4	centimetres	centimetre	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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