Exam question 4 · My dad could lift a car: playground boasting
It is given that a team won a match by three goals to two, whereas a member of that team asserts that she scored «like ten goals». Determine the greatest number of goals she can have scored.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: team, member, you · What happens: give, win, wherea, assert, score, determine · To what, where: It, match, ten goals, greatest number, goals
This is exam question 4 of lesson 48 «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a team won a match by three goals to two, whereas a member of that team asserts that she scored «like ten goals».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 won | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 team | det |
| 6 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | nsubj |
| 7 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 match | det |
| 9 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 goals | case |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 goals | nummod |
| 12 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 won | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 two | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 won | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whereas | punct |
| 16 | whereas | wherea | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 member | det |
| 18 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asserts | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 team | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 team | det |
| 21 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 member | nmod |
| 22 | asserts | assert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 whereas | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 scored | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 scored | nsubj |
| 25 | scored | score | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 asserts | advcl |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 goals | punct |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 goals | case |
| 28 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 goals | nummod |
| 29 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 scored | obj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 goals | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | win | past | a team | a match | by three goals; to two | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | wherea | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | assert | present | a member of that team | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | score | past | member | ten goals | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=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.
Sentence 2: Determine the greatest number of goals she can have scored.
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 | 4 number | det |
| 3 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 goals | case |
| 6 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 scored | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 scored | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 scored | aux |
| 10 | scored | score | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 goals | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | 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 greatest number of goals | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | score | can · perfect | team | goals not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 2 · ✓ 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 3
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 4
Ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | 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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