Exam question 2 · "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the sleep requirement of children aged nine to ten years.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 163 «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» 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 requirement	det
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 requirement	compound
12	requirement	requirement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 children	case
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 requirement	nmod
15	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 children	acl
16	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 ten	case
18	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 nine	nmod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 aged	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	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 sleep requirement of children			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus requirement=Experiencer
4	age	participle		children not said here	year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	require			children			nom requirement «cognition transitive»: of=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 five to six hours nightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 five	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 six	case
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 five	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 eleven 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 eleven	case
4	eleven	eleven	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 fourteen to sixteen 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 sixteen	case
4	sixteen	sixteen	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 4

No particular quantity is required

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 quantity	det
2	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quantity	amod
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 required	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 required	aux:pass
5	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		no particular quantity					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

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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