Exam question 2 · Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together
It is given that a week comprises 168 hours, of which 30 are devoted to school, 70 to sleep and 2 to football. Ascertain the number of hours remaining.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: week, you, hours · What happens: give, comprise, devote, sleep, ascertain, remain · To what, where: It, 30, school, 2, number
This is exam question 2 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a week comprises 168 hours, of which 30 are devoted to school, 70 to sleep and 2 to football.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 comprises | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comprises | nsubj |
| 7 | comprises | comprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | 168 | 168 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 hours | nummod |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 comprises | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 devoted | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 devoted | obl |
| 13 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 devoted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 devoted | aux:pass |
| 15 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 school | case |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 devoted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 70 | punct |
| 19 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 devoted | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sleep | mark |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 devoted | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 2 | cc |
| 23 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 sleep | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 football | case |
| 25 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 2 | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | comprise | present | a week | hour | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | devote | present · passive | 30 | to school goal; 70 obl | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to school=Goal | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | 2 | to football | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Theme |
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: Ascertain the number of hours remaining.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | 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 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hours | case |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hours | acl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the number of hours | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remain | gerund | hours not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Seventy-six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 six | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Seventy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One hundred and two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 two | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ninety-eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 eight | punct |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Ninety | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sixty-six
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 six | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Sixty | conj |
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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