Exam question 4 · Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★
A canal lock measures 30 metres in length and 4 metres in width, and its water rises by 2 metres. Determine the volume of water admitted, in cubic metres.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: canal lock, water, you · What happens: measure, rise, determine, admit · To what, where: 30 metres, length, volume, cubic metres
This is exam question 4 of lesson 43 «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» 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 canal lock measures 30 metres in length and 4 metres in width, and its water rises by 2 metres.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lock | det |
| 2 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lock | compound |
| 3 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 measures | nsubj |
| 4 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 metres | nummod |
| 6 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 measures | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 length | case |
| 8 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 measures | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 metres | cc |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 metres | nummod |
| 11 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 length | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 width | case |
| 13 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 metres | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rises | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rises | cc |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 water | nmod:poss |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rises | nsubj |
| 18 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 measures | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 metres | case |
| 20 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 metres | nummod |
| 21 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rises | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 measures | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | a canal lock | 30 metres | length and 4 metres in width | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme metre=Value | |||
| 2 | rise | present | lock's water | by 2 metres | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by metre=Location |
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 volume of water admitted, in cubic metres.
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 volume | det |
| 3 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 volume | nmod |
| 6 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 volume | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 metres | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 metres | case |
| 9 | cubic | cubic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 metres | amod |
| 10 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 admitted | obl |
| 11 | . | . | 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 volume of water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Topic | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | participle | the volume of water not said here | cubic metres | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in metre=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
36
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
2,400
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,400 | 2,400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
240
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 240 | 240 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
120
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120 | 120 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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