Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / World / "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" / e2

Exam question 2 · "Crime is up, I saw it on the news"

It is given that burglaries in a village increased from two in one year to three in the next. Determine the number of additional burglaries thereby represented.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, additional burglaries · What happens: give, increase, determine, represent · To what, where: It, village, two, number

This is exam question 2 of lesson 177 «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» 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 burglaries in a village increased from two in one year to three in the next.

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	ADP	_	5 burglaries	case
5	burglaries	burglary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
9	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 village	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 two	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 increased	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 year	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 year	nummod
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 increased	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 three	case
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 increased	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 next	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 next	det
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 three	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It		a village		that burglaries	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	increase	participle		a village not said here		two	year	to three in the next result	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from two=Initial_State to three=Result

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 additional burglaries thereby represented.

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	_	6 burglaries	case
5	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 burglaries	amod
6	burglaries	burglary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	8 represented	advmod
8	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burglaries	acl:relcl
9	.	.	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 additional burglaries					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	represent	past	additional burglaries not said here					thereby property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Fifty additional burglaries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 burglaries	nummod
2	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burglaries	amod
3	burglaries	burglary	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One additional burglary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 burglary	nummod
2	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burglary	amod
3	burglary	burglary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Three additional burglaries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 burglaries	nummod
2	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burglaries	amod
3	burglaries	burglary	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Two additional burglaries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 burglaries	nummod
2	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burglaries	amod
3	burglaries	burglary	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/e2/