Exam question 2 · Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"

Whereas one sibling is aged nine and another six, ascertain the age of the younger upon the elder attaining twenty years.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elder · What happens: be, ascertain, attain · To what, where: age

This is exam question 2 of lesson 114 «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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	_	3 sibling	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sibling	nummod
3	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aged	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 aged	cop
5	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 aged	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 six	cc
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 six	det
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nine	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ascertain	punct
11	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 aged	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 age	det
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ascertain	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 younger	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 younger	det
16	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 age	amod
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 elder	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 elder	det
19	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 younger	obl
20	attaining	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 elder	acl
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 attaining	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 aged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				whereas one sibling; nine obl:unmarked; aged property	tree rules
2	ascertain	infinitive		the age			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic
3	attain	gerund	the elder not said here		year		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seventeen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

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.

Option 4

Twenty-three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 three	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	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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