Exam question 4 · Wild animals and tall tales
Ascertain the maximum rotation of the head of which an owl is capable.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, owl, head · What happens: ascertain, be, rotate · To what, where: maximum rotation
This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «Wild animals and tall tales» 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 | 4 rotation | det |
| 3 | maximum | maximum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rotation | amod |
| 4 | rotation | rotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rotation | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 capable | obl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 owl | det |
| 11 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 capable | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 capable | cop |
| 13 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 head | acl:relcl |
| 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 maximum rotation of the head | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rotation=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a owl | of the head; capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rotate | the head | nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=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
Approximately ninety degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 ninety | advmod |
| 2 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 degrees | nummod |
| 3 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A complete rotation of three hundred and sixty degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rotation | det |
| 2 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rotation | amod |
| 3 | rotation | rotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 degrees | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 degrees | nummod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sixty | cc |
| 8 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | conj |
| 9 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rotation | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rotate | hundred degrees | nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3
Two complete rotations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 rotations | nummod |
| 2 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rotations | amod |
| 3 | rotations | rotation | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Approximately two hundred and seventy degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 degrees | nummod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seventy | cc |
| 5 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | conj |
| 6 | degrees | degree | 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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