Exam question 1 · Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★
A chain wheel bearing 40 teeth drives a rear cog bearing 20 teeth. Determine the number of revolutions of the rear wheel corresponding to 3 revolutions of the pedals.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chain wheel, rear cog, you, rear wheel, pedals · What happens: bear, drive, determine, correspond, revolt · To what, where: 40 teeth, rear cog, 20 teeth, number
This is exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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: A chain wheel bearing 40 teeth drives a rear cog bearing 20 teeth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wheel | det |
| 2 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wheel | compound |
| 3 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drives | nsubj |
| 4 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wheel | acl |
| 5 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 teeth | nummod |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bearing | obj |
| 7 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cog | det |
| 9 | rear | rear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cog | amod |
| 10 | cog | cog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drives | obj |
| 11 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cog | acl |
| 12 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 teeth | nummod |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bearing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | gerund | a chain wheel not said here | 40 teeth | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drive | present | a chain wheel | a rear cog | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme cog=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | a rear cog not said here | 20 teeth | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
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 number of revolutions of the rear wheel corresponding to 3 revolutions of the pedals.
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 | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 revolutions | case |
| 5 | revolutions | revolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wheel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wheel | det |
| 8 | rear | rear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wheel | amod |
| 9 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 revolutions | nmod |
| 10 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wheel | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 revolutions | case |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 revolutions | nummod |
| 13 | revolutions | revolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 corresponding | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pedals | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pedals | det |
| 16 | pedals | pedal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 revolutions | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | 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 number of revolutions of the rear wheel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | correspond | gerund | the rear wheel not said here | to 3 revolutions of the pedals | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | revolt | the rear wheel | nom revolution «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | revolt | the pedals | nom revolution «event intransitive»: of=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3
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.
Option 4
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.
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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