Exam question 2 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

Ascertain the number of hours of sleep per night required by children between six and twelve years of age.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, require · To what, where: number, night

This is exam question 2 of lesson 95 «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hours	case
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hours	nmod
8	per	per	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	nmod
10	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 night	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 children	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 required	obl
13	between	between	ADP	_	14 six	case
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 twelve	cc
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 six	conj
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 required	obl:unmarked
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 age	case
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 years	nmod
20	.	.	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 number of hours of sleep per night					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	require	participle		night not said here			year	by children	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

About four to five hours each night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	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
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hours	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About nine to twelve hours

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	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 3

About eighteen to twenty hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

About two to three hours each night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 three	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 two	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hours	nmod:unmarked

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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