Exam question 4 · Leap years and 29 February birthdays

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the duration of the Earth's revolution around the Sun.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts, Earth · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, revolt · To what, where: response, duration, Sun.

This is exam question 4 of lesson 112 «Leap years and 29 February birthdays» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 duration	det
13	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 revolution	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Earth	det
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 revolution	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Earth	case
18	revolution	revolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 duration	nmod
19	around	around	ADP	_	21 Sun.	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sun.	det
21	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 revolution	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the duration of the Earth's revolution around the Sun.			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus duration=Experiencer
5	revolt		the Earth		the Sun.		nom revolution «event intransitive»: poss=agent around=place

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

Approximately 360 days and 6 hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 360	advmod
2	360	360	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hours	cc
5	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 hours	nummod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately 365 days, 5 hours and 49 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 365	advmod
2	365	365	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hours	punct
5	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 hours	nummod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 minutes	cc
8	49	49	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 minutes	nummod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj

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

Option 3

Precisely 365 days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	2 365	advmod
2	365	365	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Precisely 366 days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	2 366	advmod
2	366	366	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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