Exam question 4 · Chocolate and sweets

Determine the aggregate quantity of sweets contained in four bags, it being given that each bag contains fifteen sweets.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bag · What happens: determine, contain, give · To what, where: aggregate quantity, sweets, four bags, quantity, fifteen sweets

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 quantity	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quantity	compound
4	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sweets	case
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quantity	nmod
7	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sweets	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bags	case
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 bags	nummod
10	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 contained	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 given	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 given	nsubj:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 given	aux:pass
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 contains	mark
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 bag	det
17	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 contains	nsubj
18	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 given	advcl
19	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 sweets	nummod
20	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 contains	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate quantity of sweets		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic
2	contain	participle		sweets not said here	four bags	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bag=Location
3	give	gerund · passive		quantity		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	contain	present	each bag	fifteen sweets		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sweet=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

Nineteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Forty-five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj

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

Option 4

Seventy-five

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 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seventy	conj

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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