Exam question 4 · Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★
Two settlements lie 45 degrees of longitude apart. Determine the interval between their respective local noons.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two settlements, you · What happens: lie, determine · To what, where: 45 degrees, interval
This is exam question 4 of lesson 63 «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» 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
Sentence 1: Two settlements lie 45 degrees of longitude apart.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 settlements | nummod |
| 2 | settlements | settlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 degrees | nummod |
| 5 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lie | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 longitude | case |
| 7 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 degrees | nmod |
| 8 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 3 lie | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Two settlements | 45 degrees of longitude | apart property | vn assuming_position-50 «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.
Sentence 2: Determine the interval between their respective local noons.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 interval | det |
| 3 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 noons | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 noons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noons | amod |
| 7 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noons | amod |
| 8 | noons | noon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 interval | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the interval | between degrees's respective local noons | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Forty-five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Forty | conj |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Forty-five hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hours | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Forty | conj |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One hour and a half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 half | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 half | det |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 hour | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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