Exam question 4 · Sugar, teeth and the dentist

Determine the number of deciduous teeth, hereinafter baby teeth, ordinarily possessed by a child.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, possess · To what, where: number, hereinafter baby teeth

This is exam question 4 of lesson 24 «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine 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	Determine	determine	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 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
5	deciduous	deciduous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teeth	amod
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 teeth	punct
8	hereinafter	hereinafter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teeth	compound
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teeth	compound
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teeth	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 possessed	punct
12	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	13 possessed	advmod
13	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 teeth	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 possessed	obl
17	.	.	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 number of deciduous teeth					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	possess	participle		hereinafter baby teeth not said here				by a child; ordinarily property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Twenty-eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 3

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.

Option 4

Thirty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj

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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