Exam question 3 · Sleep and healthy eating

Ascertain the quantity of sleep required nightly by a child of nine to ten years.

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 80 «Sleep and healthy eating» 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	3 quantity	det
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sleep	case
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quantity	nmod
6	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 quantity	acl
7	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	6 required	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 child	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 required	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 years	case
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 ten	case
14	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 nine	nmod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 child	nmod
16	.	.	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 quantity of sleep					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic
2	require	participle		the quantity of sleep not said here				by a child of nine years; nightly property	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

Approximately four to six hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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