Exam question 1 · Exercise and posture

Pursuant to the guidance issued in the United Kingdom, determine the minimum average daily duration of physical activity recommended for children.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: issue, determine, recommend · To what, where: guidance, minimum average daily duration, physical activity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 34 «Exercise and posture» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	11 determine	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 guidance	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guidance	det
4	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pursuant	obl
5	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guidance	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Kingdom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Kingdom	det
8	United	United	PROPN	_	9 Kingdom	flat
9	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 issued	obl:agent
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pursuant	punct
11	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 duration	det
13	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 duration	amod
14	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 duration	amod
15	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 duration	amod
16	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 determine	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 activity	case
18	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 activity	amod
19	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 duration	nmod
20	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 activity	acl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 children	case
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 recommended	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	issue	participle		the guidance not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	determine	imperative	you not said here	the minimum average daily duration of physical activity	pursuant property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
3	recommend	participle		physical activity not said here	for children	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for child=Attribute

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

Five hours, of which two are vigorous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 vigorous	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 two	obl
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	acl:relcl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 vigorous	cop
8	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Five hours					vigorous property	tree rules

Option 2

Thirty seconds of vigorous activity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 activity	case
4	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 activity	amod
5	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seconds	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sixty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Ten minutes of brisk walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 walking	case
4	brisk	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walking	amod
5	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 minutes	nmod

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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