Exam question 3 · A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport
It is given that a child consumes a confection at intervals of fifteen minutes during a training session of two hours. Determine the number of occasions upon which the teeth are exposed to sugar.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, you · What happens: give, consume, determine, expose · To what, where: It, intervals, confection, number, teeth
This is exam question 3 of lesson 54 «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» 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 child consumes a confection at intervals of fifteen minutes during a training session of two hours.
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 consumes | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consumes | nsubj |
| 7 | consumes | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 confection | det |
| 9 | confection | confection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consumes | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 intervals | case |
| 11 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 minutes | case |
| 13 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 minutes | nummod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 intervals | nmod |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 session | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 session | det |
| 17 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 session | compound |
| 18 | session | session | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hours | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hours | nummod |
| 21 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 session | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | intervals of fifteen minutes | during a training session of two hours | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at interval=Asset | |||
| 2 | consume | present | a child | a confection | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confection=Asset |
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 occasions upon which the teeth are exposed to sugar.
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 occasions | case |
| 5 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 exposed | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teeth | det |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exposed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 exposed | aux:pass |
| 11 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 occasions | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sugar | mark |
| 13 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exposed | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 of occasions | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | expose | present · passive | the teeth | upon occasions | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
Fifteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One hundred and twenty
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 twenty | cc |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | 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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