Exam question 4 · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines

Given a timeline of one metre representing two thousand years, determine the length representing a single century.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one metre, you, length · What happens: give, represent, determine · To what, where: length

This is exam question 4 of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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	3 timeline	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 timeline	det
3	timeline	timeline	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 determine	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 metre	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 metre	nummod
6	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 timeline	nmod
7	representing	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 metre	acl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thousand	compound
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 representing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 determine	punct
12	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 length	det
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 determine	obj
15	representing	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 length	acl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 century	det
17	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 century	amod
18	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 representing	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	represent	gerund	one metre not said here		year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	determine	imperative	you not said here	the length		give a timeline of one metre	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=Topic
4	represent	gerund	the length not said here		century		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 centimetres	nummod
2	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Five centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 centimetres	nummod
2	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Twenty centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 centimetres	nummod
2	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

One centimetre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 centimetre	nummod
2	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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