Exam question 3 · How long since? Counting back

Identify the number of days elapsed between the second and the sixteenth day of the same month.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, elapse · To what, where: number, days

This is exam question 3 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» 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	Identify	identify	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 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 days	case
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 days	acl
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 second	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 second	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 elapsed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 day	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 days	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 month	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 month	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 month	amod
17	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the number of days and the sixteenth day of the same month					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	elapse	participle		days and the sixteenth day of the same month not said here				between the second	tree rules

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

Eighteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fourteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fourteen	fourteen	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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