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Exam question 4 · Tunnels and what lies under the street

It is given that the Gotthard Base Tunnel measures approximately 57 kilometres and the Channel Tunnel approximately 50 kilometres. Determine by how much the former exceeds the latter.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gotthard Base Tunnel, Channel Tunnel, you, much · What happens: give, measure, kilometre, determine, exceed · To what, where: It, 57 kilometres, latter

This is exam question 4 of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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 the Gotthard Base Tunnel measures approximately 57 kilometres and the Channel Tunnel approximately 50 kilometres.

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	_	9 measures	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tunnel	det
6	Gotthard	Gotthard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tunnel	compound
7	Base	Base	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tunnel	compound
8	Tunnel	Tunnel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 measures	nsubj
9	measures	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
10	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	11 57	advmod
11	57	57	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 kilometres	nummod
12	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 measures	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kilometres	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tunnel	det
15	Channel	Channel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Tunnel	compound
16	Tunnel	Tunnel	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 kilometres	nsubj
17	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	18 50	advmod
18	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 kilometres	nummod
19	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kilometres	conj
20	.	.	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	measure	present	the Gotthard Base Tunnel	57 kilometres and 50 kilometres					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilometre=Value
3	kilometre		the Channel Tunnel						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 by how much the former exceeds the latter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 exceeds	mark
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exceeds	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 former	det
6	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 much	obl:unmarked
7	exceeds	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 latter	det
9	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exceeds	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	exceed	present	much	the latter					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot latter=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Approximately seventeen kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 seventeen	advmod
2	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately five kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 five	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately one hundred and seven kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kilometres	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 seven	cc
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	conj
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately seven kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 seven	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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