Exam question 3 · Thinking like a lifeguard
It being given that thunder is heard nine seconds after the flash, determine the approximate distance of the lightning.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: give, hear, determine · To what, where: It, thunder, approximate distance
This is exam question 3 of lesson 50 «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thunder | det |
| 5 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux:pass |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | ccomp |
| 8 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 seconds | nummod |
| 9 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 flash | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flash | det |
| 12 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seconds | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 determine | punct |
| 14 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 distance | det |
| 16 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 distance | amod |
| 17 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 determine | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lightning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lightning | det |
| 20 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 distance | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear | present · passive | that thunder | second | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | determine | infinitive | the approximate distance of the lightning | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic |
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
About three kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 three | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Less than one hundred metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 Less | fixed |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 metres | nummod |
| 5 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About thirty kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 thirty | advmod |
| 2 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About nine kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 nine | advmod |
| 2 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | 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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