Exam question 4 · Brushing your teeth

Ascertain the approximate interval at which a toothbrush ought to be replaced.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, replace · To what, where: approximate interval, toothbrush

This is exam question 4 of lesson 73 «Brushing your teeth» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 interval	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 interval	amod
4	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 replaced	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toothbrush	det
8	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replaced	nsubj:pass
9	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 replaced	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	12 replaced	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 replaced	aux:pass
12	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 interval	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate interval					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic
2	replace	ought · passive	you not said here	a toothbrush		the approximate interval			vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately every three months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 months	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 months	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately every three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 years	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 years	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately every three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 days	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 days	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Only when the handle breaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 breaks	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 breaks	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 handle	det
4	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	nsubj
5	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	the handle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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