Exam question 3 · The Industrial Revolution

Ascertain the duration of the first powered aeroplane flight undertaken by the Wright brothers in nineteen hundred and three.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, power, undertake · To what, where: duration, first powered aeroplane flight, nineteen hundred

This is exam question 3 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» of the history 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 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 flight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flight	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 flight	amod
7	powered	power	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flight	amod
8	aeroplane	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flight	compound
9	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duration	nmod
10	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flight	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 brothers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brothers	det
13	Wright	Wright	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 brothers	compound
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 undertaken	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hundred	case
16	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	compound
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 undertaken	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 three	cc
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the duration of the first powered aeroplane flight			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	power	participle					tree rules
3	undertake	participle		the first powered aeroplane flight not said here	nineteen hundred	by the Wright brothers	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

Twelve whole minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minutes	nummod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minutes	amod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Twelve long hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hours	amod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Two entire days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
2	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	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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