Exam question 1 · Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together
Given that an activity occupies two hours daily, determine the aggregate duration over a year of 365 days.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: activity, you · What happens: give, occupy, determine · To what, where: aggregate duration
This is exam question 1 of lesson 130 «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» 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 | 5 occupies | mark |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 occupies | mark |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 activity | det |
| 4 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occupies | nsubj |
| 5 | occupies | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 determine | advcl |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 occupies | obj |
| 8 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 5 occupies | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 determine | punct |
| 10 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 duration | det |
| 12 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 duration | compound |
| 13 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 determine | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 determine | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | 365 | 365 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 year | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | occupy | present | a activity | hour | daily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the aggregate duration | year | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic |
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
Seven thousand three hundred hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three hundred and sixty-five hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sixty | cc |
| 4 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sixty | punct |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Seven hundred and thirty hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thirty | cc |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Fourteen hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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