Exam question 4 · Sleep and the body clock

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the recommended duration of sleep for children aged six to twelve years.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, recommend, age · To what, where: response, recommended duration, children

This is exam question 4 of lesson 127 «Sleep and the body clock» 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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duration	det
11	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 duration	amod
12	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 sleep	case
14	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 duration	nmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 children	case
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obl
17	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 children	acl
18	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 twelve	case
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 six	nmod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 aged	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the recommended duration of sleep		for children	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus duration=Experiencer
4	recommend	participle					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	age	participle		children not said here	year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 fourteen to seventeen hours nightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 fourteen	advmod
2	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 seventeen	case
4	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fourteen	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	5 hours	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately nine to twelve hours nightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 twelve	case
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nine	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	5 hours	advmod

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

Option 3

Approximately four to five hours nightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 five	case
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 four	nmod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	5 hours	advmod

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

Option 4

Approximately six hours nightly, as for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nightly	obl:unmarked
4	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nightly	punct
6	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 adults	case
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
8	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nightly	obl

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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