Exam question 4 · Bottles, cans and recycling

Determine the aggregate number of bottles contained in three crates, it being given that each crate holds twenty bottles.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, crate · What happens: determine, contain, give, hold · To what, where: aggregate number, bottles, three crates, number, twenty bottles

This is exam question 4 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» 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 number	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	compound
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bottles	case
6	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bottles	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 crates	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 crates	nummod
10	crates	crate	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 holds	mark
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 crate	det
17	crate	crate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holds	nsubj
18	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 given	advcl
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 bottles	nummod
20	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 holds	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of bottles		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	contain	participle		bottles not said here	three crates	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in crate=Location
3	give	gerund · passive		number		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	hold	present	each crate	twenty bottles		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=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

Forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ninety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ninety	ninety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ 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 4

Twenty-three

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 three	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	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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