Exam question 1 · Grammar puzzles, part one

Ascertain the number of nouns contained within the sentence "The dog chased the cat into the garden".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, dog · What happens: ascertain, contain, chase · To what, where: number, nouns, cat, garden

This is exam question 1 of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nouns	case
5	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nouns	acl
7	within	within	ADP	_	9 sentence	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sentence	det
9	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contained	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 chased	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chased	nsubj
13	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sentence	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chased	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 garden	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 garden	det
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chased	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 chased	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of nouns			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	contain	participle		nouns not said here		within the sentence	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	chase in a quote	past	the dog	the cat	the garden		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme into garden=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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