Exam question 2 · Seasons, terms and holidays
It is given that a summer vacation endures six weeks. Ascertain the number of days thereby comprised.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: summer vacation, you · What happens: give, endure, ascertain, comprise · To what, where: It, number, days
This is exam question 2 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a summer vacation endures six weeks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 endures | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vacation | det |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vacation | compound |
| 7 | vacation | vacation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 endures | nsubj |
| 8 | endures | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 weeks | nummod |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 endures | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | endure | present | a summer vacation | week | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: Ascertain the number of days thereby comprised.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | 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 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 7 comprised | advmod |
| 7 | comprised | comprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 days | acl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the number of days | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | comprise | participle | days not said here | thereby property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Forty-eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 eight | punct |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Forty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Forty-two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 two | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Forty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4
Thirty-six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 six | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Thirty | 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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