Exam question 2 · Eyes, ears and moving your body
Ascertain the minimum daily duration of physical activity recommended for children.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, recommend · To what, where: minimum daily duration, physical activity
This is exam question 2 of lesson 87 «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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 | 5 duration | det |
| 3 | minimum | minimum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 duration | amod |
| 4 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 duration | amod |
| 5 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 activity | case |
| 7 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 activity | amod |
| 8 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 duration | nmod |
| 9 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 activity | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 recommended | obl |
| 12 | . | . | 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 minimum daily duration of physical activity | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | recommend | participle | physical activity not said here | for children | 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 · ✓ the right answer
At least one hour per day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 hour | nmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hour | nummod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | per | per | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hour | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
At least five hours per day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 five | nmod |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hours | nummod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | per | per | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hours | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No activity is recommended at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 activity | det |
| 2 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recommended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recommended | aux:pass |
| 4 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 recommended | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | present · passive | no activity | all | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
At least ten minutes per week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 ten | nmod |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | per | per | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minutes | nmod |
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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