Exam question 3 · Getting old: how long people and animals live

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the life span of a domestic hamster.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, life span

This is exam question 3 of lesson 52 «Getting old: how long people and animals live» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 span	det
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 span	compound
12	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 hamster	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hamster	det
15	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hamster	amod
16	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 span	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the life span of a domestic hamster		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus span=Experiencer

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

It ordinarily extends to approximately one day

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 extends	nsubj
2	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	3 extends	advmod
3	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 approximately	mark
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 extends	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 extends	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extend	present	It				day	approximately, ordinarily property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It ordinarily extends to approximately one hundred years or more

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 extends	nsubj
2	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	3 extends	advmod
3	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	8 years	mark
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	7 hundred	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 extends	obl:unmarked
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 more	cc
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 years	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extend	present	It				year	ordinarily property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It ordinarily extends to approximately two or three years

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 extends	nsubj
2	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	3 extends	advmod
3	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 two	mark
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 two	advmod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 three	cc
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 two	conj
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 extends	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extend	present	It				year	ordinarily property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It ordinarily extends to approximately fifteen years

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 extends	nsubj
2	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	3 extends	advmod
3	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	3 extends	xcomp
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 fifteen	advmod
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 extends	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extend	present	It				year	ordinarily property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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