Exam question 4 · The library and books

Ascertain an indication that a book may presently be too difficult.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, book · What happens: ascertain, be · To what, where: indication

This is exam question 4 of lesson 259 «The library and books» 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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 indication	det
3	indication	indication	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 difficult	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 difficult	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 difficult	aux
8	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 difficult	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 difficult	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 difficult	advmod
11	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ascertain	advcl
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	a indication					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indication=Topic
2	is	may	a book					difficult, presently property	tree rules

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

Fewer than five pictures in the book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 five	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Fewer	fixed
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pictures	nummod
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 book	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pictures	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

More than about five unknown words on the first page

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 words	amod
2	than	than	ADP	_	6 words	case
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 five	advmod
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 words	nummod
5	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 page	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 page	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 page	amod
10	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod

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

Option 3

A cover of a dark colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cover	det
2	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 colour	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 colour	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	amod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cover	nmod

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

Option 4

More than ten chapters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 ten	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 chapters	nummod
4	chapters	chapter	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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