Exam question 1 · Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football
It is given that a batter strikes the ball such that it crosses the boundary without first making contact with the ground. Determine the number of runs awarded.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: batter, you, number · What happens: give, strike, cross, make, determine, run · To what, where: It, ball, boundary, contact, number
This is exam question 1 of lesson 45 «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» 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 batter strikes the ball such that it crosses the boundary without first making contact with the ground.
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 strikes | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 batter | det |
| 6 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strikes | nsubj |
| 7 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strikes | obj |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 7 strikes | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 crosses | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crosses | nsubj |
| 13 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 strikes | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boundary | det |
| 15 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crosses | obj |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 making | mark |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 making | advmod |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 crosses | advcl |
| 19 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 contact | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | 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 | strike | present | a batter | the ball | such property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | |||
| 3 | cross | present | batter | the boundary | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boundary=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | batter not said here | contact | with the ground; first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contact=Product |
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 number of runs awarded.
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 | _ | 5 runs | advmod |
| 5 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 number | acl:relcl |
| 6 | awarded | award | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 runs | xcomp |
| 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 number | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run | present | the number not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | award | participle | the number not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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