Exam question 2 · Viral facts and chain messages

Identify the number of cervical vertebrae possessed by the giraffe.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, possess · To what, where: number, cervical vertebrae

This is exam question 2 of lesson 25 «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 vertebrae	case
5	cervical	cervical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vertebrae	amod
6	vertebrae	vertebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 vertebrae	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 giraffe	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giraffe	det
10	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possessed	obl
11	.	.	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 number of cervical vertebrae					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	possess	participle		cervical vertebrae not said here				by the giraffe	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Three, each of exceptional length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 each	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 each	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 length	case
5	exceptional	exceptional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 length	amod
6	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 each	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Seventy, being ten times the number found in humans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 times	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 times	cop
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 number	det
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	appos
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 number	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 humans	case
10	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		Seventy ten times					tree rules
2	find	participle		the number not said here				in humans	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

None, the neck consisting solely of muscle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 neck	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neck	det
4	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 None	conj
5	consisting	consist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 None	acl
6	solely	solely	ADV	_	5 consisting	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 muscle	case
8	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consisting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consist	gerund						of muscle; solely property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Seven, being equal in number to those of humans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 equal	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 equal	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 equal	cop
4	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 number	case
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 equal	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 those	case
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 equal	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 humans	case
10	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 those	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Seven			number		to those; equal property	tree rules

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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