Exam question 2 · Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals

Identify the quantity of nightly sleep generally recommended for children aged six to twelve years.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, recommend, age · To what, where: quantity, nightly sleep, children

This is exam question 2 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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	Identify	identify	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 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
5	nightly	nightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sleep	amod
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quantity	nmod
7	generally	generally	ADV	_	8 recommended	advmod
8	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sleep	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 recommended	obl
11	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 children	acl
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 twelve	case
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 six	nmod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 aged	obl:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the quantity of nightly sleep			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
2	recommend	participle		nightly sleep not said here		for children; generally property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for child=Attribute
3	age	participle		children not said here	year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 sixteen to eighteen hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Approximately six hours at most

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	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 most	case
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 hours	nmod

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

Option 3

Approximately four to five 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 five	case
4	five	five	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 4 · ✓ 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.

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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