Exam question 1 · Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is
Determine the number of seconds comprised in two minutes.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, comprise · To what, where: number, seconds
This is exam question 1 of lesson 105 «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» of the world 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 | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 seconds | case |
| 5 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | comprised | comprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seconds | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 minutes | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 minutes | nummod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 comprised | obl |
| 10 | . | . | 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 number of seconds | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | comprise | participle | seconds not said here | minute | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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
Sixty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
One hundred and twenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 twenty | cc |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | 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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