Exam question 2 · Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many fai…
Ascertain the total number of candles lit during the eight nights of Hanukkah, the helper candle being lit on every night.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, lit · To what, where: total number, candles, helper candle
This is exam question 2 of lesson 102 «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» of the religion ethics 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 number | det |
| 3 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 candles | case |
| 6 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 candles | acl |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 nights | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nights | det |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 nights | nummod |
| 11 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lit | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Hanukkah | case |
| 13 | Hanukkah | Hanukkah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nights | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lit | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 candle | det |
| 16 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 candle | compound |
| 17 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lit | nsubj |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 lit | aux:pass |
| 19 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 candles | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lit | obl |
| 23 | . | . | 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 total number of candles | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lit | participle | candles not said here | night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lit | gerund · passive | the helper candle | night | tree rules |
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
36
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
72
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
44
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths/e2/