Exam question 4 · Toys and Lego

Determine the aggregate number of wheels upon seven toy cars, it being given that each car possesses four wheels.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, car · What happens: determine, give, possess · To what, where: aggregate number, number, four wheels

This is exam question 4 of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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 wheels	case
6	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 cars	case
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cars	nummod
9	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cars	compound
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Determine	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 possesses	mark
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 car	det
17	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 possesses	nsubj
18	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 given	advcl
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 wheels	nummod
20	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 possesses	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of wheels	upon seven toy cars	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	give	gerund · passive		number		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	possess	present	each car	four wheels		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wheel=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-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj

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

Option 2

Eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Twenty-four

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 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-eight

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 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	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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