Exam question 2 · Directions, latitude and longitude

Ascertain the approximate distance corresponding to a single degree of latitude upon the Earth's surface.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, approximate distance · What happens: ascertain, correspond · To what, where: approximate distance

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Directions, latitude and longitude» 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	4 distance	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distance	amod
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 distance	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 degree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 degree	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 degree	amod
9	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 corresponding	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 latitude	case
11	latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 degree	nmod
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 surface	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Earth	det
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 surface	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Earth	case
16	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 corresponding	obl
17	.	.	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 approximate distance					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic
2	correspond	gerund	the approximate distance not said here					to a single degree of latitude; upon the Earth's surface	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Eleven kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	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 thousand kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One hundred and eleven kilometres

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	5 kilometres	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 eleven	cc
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Sixty-nine kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nine	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sixty	punct
3	nine	nine	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.

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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