Exam question 2 · Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" m…

Given that a cat's first year corresponds to fifteen human years, its second to a total of twenty-four, and each subsequent year to four, ascertain the human equivalent of a cat aged ten years.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first year, you · What happens: give, correspond, ascertain, age · To what, where: human equivalent, cat

This is exam question 2 of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» 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	8 corresponds	mark
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 corresponds	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 year	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cat	case
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 corresponds	nsubj
8	corresponds	correspond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ascertain	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
11	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 corresponds	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 second	punct
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 second	nmod:poss
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 corresponds	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 total	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 total	det
18	total	total	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 second	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 four	case
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 four	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 twenty	punct
22	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 total	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ascertain	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ascertain	cc
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 year	det
26	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 year	amod
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ascertain	obl:unmarked
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 four	case
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 year	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 year	punct
31	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 equivalent	det
33	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 equivalent	amod
34	equivalent	equivalent	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ascertain	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 cat	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cat	det
37	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 equivalent	nmod
38	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 cat	acl
39	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 years	nummod
40	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 aged	obl:unmarked
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	give	participle				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	correspond	present	a cat's first year		year	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the human equivalent of a cat	year	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equivalent=Topic
4	age	participle		a cat 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

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

Sixty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Sixty	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj

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

Option 4

Seventy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	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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