Exam question 4 · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes

Ascertain the times of day at which many mosquitoes bite most.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, many mosquitoes · What happens: ascertain, bite

This is exam question 4 of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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 times	det
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 times	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bite	obl
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mosquitoes	amod
9	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bite	nsubj
10	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 day	acl:relcl
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 bite	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here				time		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	bite	present	many mosquitoes				at day		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at which=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 · ✓ the right answer

At dusk and at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 dusk	case
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dawn	cc
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dusk	conj

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

Option 2

Only at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 noon	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 noon	case
3	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Only at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 midnight	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Only during rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 rain	advmod
2	during	during	ADP	_	3 rain	case
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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