Exam question 2 · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers

Determine the number of calendar months which contain twenty-eight days or more.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, calendar months · What happens: determine, contain · To what, where: number

This is exam question 2 of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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	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 months	case
5	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 months	compound
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 contain	nsubj
8	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 months	acl:relcl
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 eight	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 twenty	punct
11	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 contain	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 more	cc
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 days	conj
15	.	.	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 calendar months					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	contain	present	calendar months				day		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	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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