Exam question 4 · Soil
Ascertain the approximate duration required for the formation of a few centimetres of soil.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, require · To what, where: approximate duration
This is exam question 4 of lesson 56 «Soil» 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 duration | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 duration | amod |
| 4 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 duration | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 formation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 formation | det |
| 8 | formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 required | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 centimetres | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 centimetres | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 centimetres | amod |
| 12 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 formation | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 soil | case |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 centimetres | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | 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 duration | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | the approximate duration not said here | for the formation of a few centimetres of soil | 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
A single season of cultivation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 season | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 season | amod |
| 3 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cultivation | case |
| 5 | cultivation | cultivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 season | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Several million years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 million | amod |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Several days following a period of heavy rainfall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 days | amod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 days | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 period | det |
| 5 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 following | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rainfall | case |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rainfall | amod |
| 8 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 period | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | Several days not said here | a period of heavy rainfall | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Several hundred to one thousand years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thousand | compound |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | nmod |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | 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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