Exam question 4 · Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers

Determine the aggregate number of stitches executed by a machine operating at five thousand stitches per minute over a period of three minutes.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, machine · What happens: determine, execute, operate · To what, where: aggregate number, stitches, thousand stitches

This is exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» 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 stitches	case
6	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stitches	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 machine	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 machine	det
10	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 executed	obl
11	operating	operate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 machine	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 stitches	case
13	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thousand	compound
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 stitches	nummod
15	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 operating	obl
16	per	per	ADP	_	17 minute	case
17	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stitches	nmod
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 period	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 period	det
20	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 operating	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 minutes	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 minutes	nummod
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 period	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of stitches			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	execute	participle		stitches not said here		by a machine	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	operate	gerund	a machine not said here		thousand stitches per minute	over a period of three minutes	vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Five thousand and three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 three	cc
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fifteen thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifteen	list

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

Option 3

Eight thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eight	list

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

Option 4

Fifty thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	list

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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