Exam question 4 · Decades, centuries and millennia

Given that a generation spans approximately twenty-five to thirty years, identify the approximate number of generations comprised in one century.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, generation · What happens: give, span, identify, comprise · To what, where: approximate number, generations

This is exam question 4 of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 identify	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 spans	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 generation	det
4	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spans	nsubj
5	spans	span	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Given	advcl
6	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	9 five	advmod
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 five	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 twenty	punct
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 thirty	case
11	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 five	nmod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spans	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Given	punct
14	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 number	det
16	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 number	amod
17	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 identify	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 generations	case
19	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 number	nmod
20	comprised	comprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 generations	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 century	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 century	nummod
23	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comprised	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	give	participle	you not said here			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	span	present	a generation		year	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	identify	imperative	you not said here	the approximate number of generations		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
4	comprise	participle		generations not said here	century	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

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.

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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