Exam question 4 · The kid who is always on the bench
It is given that a squad comprises fifteen players of whom eleven commence the match. Determine the number of substitutes.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: squad, eleven, you · What happens: give, comprise, commence, determine · To what, where: It, fifteen players, match, number
This is exam question 4 of lesson 70 «The kid who is always on the bench» 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 squad comprises fifteen players of whom eleven commence the match.
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 comprises | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 squad | det |
| 6 | squad | squad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comprises | nsubj |
| 7 | comprises | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 players | nummod |
| 9 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 comprises | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 players | nmod |
| 12 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 commence | nsubj |
| 13 | commence | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 match | det |
| 15 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 commence | obj |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | comprise | present | a squad | fifteen players | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme player=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | commence | present | eleven | the match | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality |
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 substitutes.
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 substitutes | case |
| 5 | substitutes | substitute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | 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 substitutes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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.
Option 3
Twenty-six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 six | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Twenty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Eleven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven | eleven | 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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