Exam question 4 · Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing…

State the approximate daily quantity of water required by children.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: require · To what, where: State approximate daily quantity

This is exam question 4 of lesson 318 «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quantity	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 quantity	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quantity	amod
4	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quantity	amod
5	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quantity	nmod
8	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 quantity	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 required	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quantity	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	participle		the State approximate daily quantity of water not said here				by children	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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

About one cup in total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cup	nummod
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 total	case
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cup	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About six to eight cups, more when hot or active

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cups	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 eight	case
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 six	nmod
5	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hot	punct
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 hot	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hot	advmod
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cups	acl:relcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 active	cc
11	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hot	conj

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

Option 3

None, if food is eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 None	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 food	mark
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 None	conj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux:pass
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · passive		None					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

About twenty cups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cups	nummod
3	cups	cup	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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