Exam question 3 · Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" m…
A child of 140 centimetres grows at a rate of five centimetres per annum. Determine the number of years required to attain 160 centimetres.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, you · What happens: grow, determine, require, attain · To what, where: rate, number, years, 160 centimetres
This is exam question 3 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
Sentence 1: A child of 140 centimetres grows at a rate of five centimetres per annum.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 centimetres | case |
| 4 | 140 | 140 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 centimetres | nummod |
| 5 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 child | nmod |
| 6 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 rate | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rate | det |
| 9 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 centimetres | case |
| 11 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 centimetres | nummod |
| 12 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rate | nmod |
| 13 | per | per | ADP | _ | 14 annum | case |
| 14 | annum | annum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 centimetres | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a child of 140 centimetres | a rate of five centimetres per annum | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: Determine the number of years required to attain 160 centimetres.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 years | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 attain | mark |
| 8 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 required | xcomp |
| 9 | 160 | 160 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 centimetres | nummod |
| 10 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attain | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the number of years | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | years not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | attain | to-infinitive | 160 centimetres | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centimetre=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ 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 2
Twenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | 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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