Exam question 4 · Escalators and lifts
It is given that a lift accommodates 8 persons per journey and that 20 persons await it. Determine the minimum number of journeys required.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lift, that, 20 persons, you · What happens: give, accommodate, person, await, determine, require · To what, where: It, 8 persons, lift, minimum number, journeys
This is exam question 4 of lesson 26 «Escalators and lifts» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a lift accommodates 8 persons per journey and that 20 persons await it.
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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 accommodates | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lift | det |
| 6 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accommodates | nsubj |
| 7 | accommodates | accommodate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 persons | nummod |
| 9 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 accommodates | obj |
| 10 | per | per | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 persons | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 persons | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 persons | nsubj |
| 14 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 persons | nummod |
| 15 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 await | nsubj |
| 16 | await | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 persons | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 await | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | accommodate | present | a lift | 8 persons | per journey | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | |||
| 3 | person | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | await | present | 20 persons | lift | 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.
Sentence 2: Determine the minimum number of journeys required.
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 number | det |
| 3 | minimum | minimum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 journeys | case |
| 6 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 journeys | acl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the minimum number of journeys | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | journeys not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twenty-eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 eight | punct |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Twenty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | 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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