Exam question 1 · The Olympics and Paralympics

Identify the interval at which the Summer Olympic Games are ordinarily held.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, hold · To what, where: interval, Summer Olympic Games

This is exam question 1 of lesson 62 «The Olympics and Paralympics» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 interval	det
3	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 held	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Games	det
7	Summer	Summer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Games	compound
8	Olympic	Olympic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Games	compound
9	Games	Game	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 held	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 held	aux:pass
11	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	12 held	advmod
12	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 interval	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the interval					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent interval=Theme
2	hold	present · passive		the Summer Olympic Games		the interval		ordinarily property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at which=Location

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Every two years in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Once every ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	SCONJ	_	4 years	mark
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 years	det
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Every four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Every single year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 year	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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