Exam question 4 · Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football
It is given that a team records two touchdowns, two successful extra-point kicks and one field goal. Ascertain the aggregate score.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: team, successful extra point, you · What happens: give, record, kick, ascertain · To what, where: It, two touchdowns, aggregate score
This is exam question 4 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 team records two touchdowns, two successful extra-point kicks and one field goal.
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 records | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 team | det |
| 6 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 records | nsubj |
| 7 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 touchdowns | nummod |
| 9 | touchdowns | touchdown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 records | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kicks | punct |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 kicks | nummod |
| 12 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 point | amod |
| 13 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 point | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 extra | punct |
| 15 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kicks | nsubj |
| 16 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 goal | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 field | nummod |
| 19 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goal | compound |
| 20 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kicks | conj |
| 21 | . | . | 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 team | two touchdowns | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touchdown=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kick | present | successful extra point | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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.
Sentence 2: Ascertain the aggregate score.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | 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 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | 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
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 2 · ✓ the right answer
Seventeen points
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventeen | seventeen | 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
Twenty-one points
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 one | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twenty | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 points | nummod |
| 4 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nineteen points
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nineteen | nineteen | 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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