Exam question 4 · Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps

Ascertain the number of ice cubes remaining in a tray of three rows of six cubes, it being given that seven cubes have been removed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ice cubes · What happens: ascertain, remain, give, remove · To what, where: number, tray, seven cubes

This is exam question 4 of lesson 10 «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» 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	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cubes	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cubes	compound
6	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cubes	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tray	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tray	det
10	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remaining	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 rows	case
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 rows	nummod
13	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tray	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cubes	case
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 cubes	nummod
16	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rows	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	nsubj:pass
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 given	aux:pass
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rows	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 removed	mark
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 cubes	nummod
23	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 removed	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 removed	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 removed	aux:pass
26	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 given	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of ice cubes		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	remain	gerund	ice cubes not said here		a tray of three rows of six cubes	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tray=Location
3	give	gerund · passive		number		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	remove	present · perfect · passive		seven cubes		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Thirteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Eighteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	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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