Exam question 1 · Africa: countries and capitals

State the number of African states which hold membership of the United Nations.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, African states · What happens: state, hold · To what, where: number, membership

This is exam question 1 of lesson 13 «Africa: countries and capitals» 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	State	state	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 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 states	case
5	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 states	amod
6	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hold	nsubj
8	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 states	acl:relcl
9	membership	membership	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Nations	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Nations	det
12	United	United	PROPN	_	13 Nations	compound
13	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 membership	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of African states					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	hold	present	African states	membership of the United Nations					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent membership=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

Forty-eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj

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

Option 3

Seventy-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seventy	conj

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

Option 4

Twenty-seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seven	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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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