Exam question 4 · When the teacher gets it wrong

Ascertain the approximate annual frequency of lightning strikes upon the Empire State Building.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, approximate annual frequency · What happens: ascertain, strike · To what, where: approximate annual frequency, State Building

This is exam question 4 of lesson 33 «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frequency	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frequency	amod
4	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frequency	amod
5	frequency	frequency	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 lightning	case
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strikes	obl
8	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frequency	acl:relcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 Building	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Building	det
11	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 State	compound
12	State	State	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Building	compound
13	Building	Building	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 strikes	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate annual frequency					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frequency=Topic
2	strike	present	the approximate annual frequency not said here			the State Building		of lightning	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon building=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

None whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	1 None	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately one per century

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	root	root
3	per	per	ADP	_	4 century	case
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod

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

Option 4

Approximately one thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	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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