Exam question 3 · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety
It being given that the air temperature exceeds ninety degrees Fahrenheit, determine the maximum period for which food may be left out.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: air temperature · What happens: give, exceed, determine, leave out · To what, where: It, ninety degrees, maximum period
This is exam question 3 of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 exceeds | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 temperature | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 temperature | compound |
| 7 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exceeds | nsubj |
| 8 | exceeds | exceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 degrees | nummod |
| 10 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 exceeds | obj |
| 11 | Fahrenheit | Fahrenheit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 degrees | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 determine | punct |
| 13 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 period | det |
| 15 | maximum | maximum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 period | compound |
| 16 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 18 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 19 food | det |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 period | nmod |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 left | aux:pass |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 determine | ccomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 left | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | exceed | present | the air temperature | ninety degrees Fahrenheit | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot degree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | determine | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | leave out | may · passive | the maximum period for which food | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
Twelve hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
One hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/e3/