Exam question 4 · Pencils, paper and school things

Ascertain the minimum number of packets of twelve pencils required in order that each of thirty pupils may receive one pencil.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, each · What happens: ascertain, require, receive · To what, where: minimum number, twelve pencils, order, one pencil

This is exam question 4 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
3	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 number	amod
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 packets	case
6	packets	packet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 pencils	case
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pencils	nummod
9	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 packets	nmod
10	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pencils	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 order	case
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 required	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 receive	mark
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 receive	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 pupils	case
16	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 pupils	nummod
17	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 each	nmod
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 receive	aux
19	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 required	advcl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pencil	nummod
21	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 receive	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the minimum number of packets of twelve pencils		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	require	participle		twelve pencils not said here	order	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	receive	may	each	one pencil		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=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

Thirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

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.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

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

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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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