Exam question 4 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people

Ascertain the aggregate number of chocolate bars contained in five boxes, it being given that each box contains twelve bars.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, box · What happens: ascertain, contain, give · To what, where: aggregate number, chocolate bars, five boxes, number, twelve bars

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1 «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	compound
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bars	case
6	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bars	compound
7	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
8	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bars	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 boxes	case
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 boxes	nummod
11	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 contained	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 given	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	nsubj:pass
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 given	aux:pass
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 contains	mark
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 box	det
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contains	nsubj
19	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 given	advcl
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 bars	nummod
21	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 contains	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of chocolate bars		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	contain	participle		chocolate bars not said here	five boxes	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in box=Location
3	give	gerund · passive		number		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	contain	present	each box	twelve bars		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bar=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Sixty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Seventeen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Seventy-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seventy	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word 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.

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