Exam question 2 · Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines
It is given that recorded offences rose from two cases to three. Ascertain the percentage increase so described.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: recorded offences, you · What happens: give, record, rise, ascertain, describe · To what, where: It, two cases, percentage increase
This is exam question 2 of lesson 33 «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» of the politics 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 recorded offences rose from two cases to three.
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 rose | mark |
| 5 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 offences | amod |
| 6 | offences | offence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 cases | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cases | nummod |
| 10 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rose | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 three | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 rose | obl |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | record | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rise | past | recorded offences | two cases | to three | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from case=Initial_Location to three=Destination |
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: Ascertain the percentage increase so described.
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 increase | det |
| 3 | percentage | percentage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 increase | compound |
| 4 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 described | advmod |
| 6 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 increase | acl |
| 7 | . | . | 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 percentage increase | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=Topic | ||||
| 2 | describe | participle | the percentage increase not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Thirty-three per cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 three | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thirty | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cent | nummod |
| 4 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cent | compound |
| 5 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One hundred per cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cent | nummod |
| 3 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cent | compound |
| 4 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Fifty per cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 cent | nummod |
| 2 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cent | compound |
| 3 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One hundred and fifty per cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fifty | cc |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cent | compound |
| 6 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fifty | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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