Exam question 3 · Bike helmets and roads

Determine the approximate total stopping distance of a car travelling at thirty miles per hour, as stated in the Highway Code.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, car · What happens: determine, travel, state · To what, where: approximate total stopping distance, Highway Code

This is exam question 3 of lesson 72 «Bike helmets and roads» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 distance	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distance	amod
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distance	amod
5	stopping	stopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distance	compound
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 car	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 car	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distance	nmod
10	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 car	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 miles	case
12	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 miles	nummod
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 travelling	obl
14	per	per	ADP	_	15 hour	case
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 miles	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stated	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 stated	mark
18	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 Code	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Code	det
21	Highway	Highway	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Code	compound
22	Code	Code	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 stated	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the approximate total stopping distance of a car			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic
2	travel	gerund	a car not said here			at thirty miles per hour	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mile=Trajectory
3	state speech: other	participle	you not said here		the Highway Code		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Two metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 metres	nummod
2	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Nine metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 metres	nummod
2	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-three metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 three	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 metres	nummod
4	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Two hundred and thirty metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 metres	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thirty	cc
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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