Exam question 4 · Phones and computer chips

Determine the aggregate number of keys upon a keyboard possessing five rows of fourteen keys each.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, keyboard · What happens: determine, possess · To what, where: aggregate number, five rows

This is exam question 4 of lesson 9 «Phones and computer chips» 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 keys	case
6	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 keyboard	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 keyboard	det
9	keyboard	keyboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obl
10	possessing	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keyboard	acl
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rows	nummod
12	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 possessing	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 keys	case
14	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 keys	nummod
15	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rows	nmod
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 possessing	advmod
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 aggregate number of keys				upon a keyboard	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	possess	gerund	a keyboard not said here	five rows of fourteen keys					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot row=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

Fifty-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj

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

Option 2

Nineteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seventy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Eighty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eighty	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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