Exam question 3 · Why time flies and why it drags

Whereas a journey occupies three hours and a question is posed every ten minutes, ascertain the total number of questions.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: journey, you · What happens: occupy, pose, ascertain · To what, where: question, total number

This is exam question 3 of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	4 occupies	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 journey	det
3	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occupies	nsubj
4	occupies	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ascertain	advcl
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hours	nummod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 occupies	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 posed	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 question	det
9	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 posed	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 posed	aux:pass
11	posed	pose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 occupies	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 minutes	det
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 minutes	nummod
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 posed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ascertain	punct
16	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 number	det
18	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 number	amod
19	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ascertain	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 questions	case
21	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 number	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	occupy	present	a journey		hour	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	pose	present · passive		a question	minute	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the total number of questions		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic

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

Thirteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

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 3 · ✓ the right answer

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 4

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.

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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