Exam question 1 · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★
It is given that the number of reported incidents rose from two to three. Determine the percentage increase.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: number, you · What happens: give, report, rise, determine · To what, where: It, two, percentage increase
This is exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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 the number of reported incidents rose from two 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 | _ | 10 rose | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 incidents | case |
| 8 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 incidents | amod |
| 9 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 two | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 rose | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 three | case |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 two | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | report | participle | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rise | past | the number of reported incidents | two to three | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from two=Initial_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.
Sentence 2: Determine the percentage increase.
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 | 4 increase | det |
| 3 | percentage | percentage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 increase | compound |
| 4 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the percentage increase | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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 2
Thirty per cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | 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 3
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 4
One per cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | 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.
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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