Exam question 1 · Famous athletes and what being a professional takes

Identify the proportion of young academy footballers frequently cited as attaining professional status.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, proportion · What happens: identify, cite, attain · To what, where: professional status

This is exam question 1 of lesson 63 «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» 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 proportion	det
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cited	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 footballers	case
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 footballers	amod
6	academy	academy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 footballers	compound
7	footballers	footballer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 proportion	nmod
8	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	9 cited	advmod
9	cited	cite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 attaining	mark
11	attaining	attain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cited	advcl
12	professional	professional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 status	amod
13	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attaining	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cite	past	the proportion of young academy footballers		frequently property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	attain	gerund	the proportion of young academy footballers not said here	professional status		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Every participant without exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 participant	det
2	participant	participant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 exception	case
4	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 participant	nmod

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

Option 2

Approximately nine in ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 ten	case
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nine	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer than one in one hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 one	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Fewer	fixed
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hundred	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	nmod

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

Option 4

Approximately one half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 half	nummod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root

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

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