Exam question 1 · Maps and scale

Ascertain the distance upon the ground represented by a measured interval of four centimetres on a chart drawn to a scale of one to twenty-five thousand.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, represent, measure, draw · To what, where: distance, ground, chart, scale

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1 «Maps and scale» of the geography 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 distance	det
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distance	nmod
7	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ground	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 interval	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 interval	det
10	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 interval	amod
11	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 represented	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 centimetres	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 centimetres	nummod
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 interval	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 chart	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chart	det
17	chart	chart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 centimetres	nmod
18	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 chart	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 scale	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 scale	det
21	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drawn	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	28 thousand	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 thousand	compound
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 five	case
25	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 five	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 twenty	punct
27	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 one	nmod
28	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 scale	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the distance		upon the ground	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic
2	represent	participle		the ground not said here		by a measured interval of four centimetres on a chart	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	measure	participle					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	draw	participle		a chart not said here	a scale of one thousand		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to scale=Destination

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

Four kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kilometres	nummod
2	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

One hundred metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Twenty-five kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kilometres	nummod
4	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One kilometre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kilometre	nummod
2	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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