Exam question 1 · Screens, eyes and sleep

Pursuant to current recommendations, determine the nightly duration of sleep required by children aged between six and twelve years.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, require, age · To what, where: nightly duration, children

This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Screens, eyes and sleep» 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	_	6 determine	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 recommendations	case
3	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 recommendations	amod
4	recommendations	recommendation	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pursuant	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pursuant	punct
6	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 duration	det
8	nightly	nightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 duration	amod
9	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 determine	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sleep	case
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 duration	nmod
12	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 duration	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 children	case
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 required	obl:agent
15	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 children	acl
16	between	between	ADP	_	17 six	case
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 twelve	cc
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 six	conj
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 aged	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the nightly duration of sleep		pursuant property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	require	participle		the nightly duration of sleep not said here			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	age	participle		children not said here	year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Approximately fourteen to sixteen hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 fourteen	advmod
2	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 sixteen	case
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fourteen	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately five to six hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 five	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 six	case
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 five	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately three hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately nine to twelve hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 twelve	case
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nine	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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