Exam question 1 · Sleep and school mornings

State the quantity of sleep recommended nightly for children of nine to ten years of age.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, recommend · To what, where: quantity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 418 «Sleep and school mornings» 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 quantity	det
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sleep	case
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quantity	nmod
6	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 quantity	acl
7	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	6 recommended	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recommended	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 years	case
11	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 ten	case
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nine	nmod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 children	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 age	case
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 years	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the quantity of sleep					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic
2	recommend	participle		the quantity of sleep not said here				for children of nine years of age; nightly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for child=Attribute

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

Approximately five to six hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 five	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 six	case
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 five	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately fifteen to sixteen hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 fifteen	advmod
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 sixteen	case
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fifteen	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately nine to twelve hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 twelve	case
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nine	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately three to four hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 four	case
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 three	nmod
5	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.

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