Exam question 1 · Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating
It is given that a basketball team records three successful attempts from beyond the arc, two from within it and a single free throw. Determine the aggregate score.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: basketball team, you · What happens: give, record, determine · To what, where: It, three successful attempts, arc, aggregate score
This is exam question 1 of lesson 44 «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» 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 basketball team records three successful attempts from beyond the arc, two from within it and a single free throw.
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 | _ | 8 records | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 team | det |
| 6 | basketball | basketball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 team | compound |
| 7 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 records | nsubj |
| 8 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 attempts | nummod |
| 10 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 attempts | amod |
| 11 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 records | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 arc | case |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 arc | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 arc | det |
| 15 | arc | arc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attempts | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 two | punct |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 arc | appos |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 19 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 two | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 throw | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 throw | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 throw | amod |
| 24 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 throw | amod |
| 25 | throw | throw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arc | conj |
| 26 | . | . | 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 | record | present | a basketball team | three successful attempts | the arc and a single free throw | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=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 aggregate score.
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 score | det |
| 3 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 score | compound |
| 4 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | . | . | 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 aggregate score | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twelve points
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 points | nummod |
| 2 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Fourteen points
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 points | nummod |
| 2 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sixteen points
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 points | nummod |
| 2 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Six points
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 points | nummod |
| 2 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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