Exam question 2 · Heart and lungs when you run
It is given that a pupil counts thirty-five pulsations within an interval of fifteen seconds. Determine the corresponding rate per minute.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, you · What happens: give, count, determine, correspond · To what, where: It, five pulsations, corresponding rate
This is exam question 2 of lesson 36 «Heart and lungs when you run» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a pupil counts thirty-five pulsations within an interval of fifteen seconds.
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 counts | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pupil | det |
| 6 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counts | nsubj |
| 7 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 five | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 thirty | punct |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pulsations | nummod |
| 11 | pulsations | pulsation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 counts | obj |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 interval | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 interval | det |
| 14 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counts | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 seconds | case |
| 16 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 seconds | nummod |
| 17 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 interval | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | count | present | a pupil | five pulsations | within a interval of fifteen seconds | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulsation=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 corresponding rate per minute.
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 rate | det |
| 3 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 rate | amod |
| 4 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | per | per | ADP | _ | 6 minute | case |
| 6 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rate | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | 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 corresponding rate | per minute | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=Topic | |||
| 2 | correspond | gerund | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Seventy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventy | seventy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
One hundred and forty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forty | cc |
| 4 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Fifty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Five hundred and twenty-five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 five | cc |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 five | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 twenty | punct |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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