Exam question 4 · Sign language

In respect of fingerspelling, ascertain the number of hands employed in British and in American Sign Language respectively.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, employ, respect · To what, where: number, respect, hands, British American Sign Language, fingerspelling

This is exam question 4 of lesson 32 «Sign language» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 respect	case
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascertain	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fingerspelling	case
4	fingerspelling	fingerspelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respect	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 respect	punct
6	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascertain	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 hands	case
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hands	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	18 Language	case
13	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Language	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Language	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 Language	case
16	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Language	amod
17	Sign	Sign	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Language	compound
18	Language	Language	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 employed	obl
19	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	11 employed	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of hands	respect of fingerspelling		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	employ	participle		hands not said here	British American Sign Language	respectively property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	respect			fingerspelling			nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

One in both languages alike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 languages	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 languages	det
4	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	alike	alike	ADV	_	4 languages	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two in British, one in American

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 British	case
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Two	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 American	case
7	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	nmod

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

Option 3

One in British, two in American

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 British	case
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 One	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 two	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 American	case
7	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 two	nmod

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

Option 4

Two in both languages alike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 languages	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 languages	det
4	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Two	nmod
5	alike	alike	ADV	_	1 Two	advmod

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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