Exam question 3 · The Moon and its phases

State the approximate interval elapsing between one new moon and the subsequent new moon.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: approximate interval · What happens: elapse

This is exam question 3 of lesson 3 «The Moon and its phases» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 interval	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 interval	amod
4	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
5	elapsing	elapse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 interval	acl
6	between	between	ADP	_	9 moon	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 moon	nummod
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moon	amod
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elapsing	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 moon	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moon	det
12	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 moon	amod
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 moon	amod
14	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moon	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elapse	gerund	the approximate interval not said here					between one new moon and the subsequent new moon	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately twenty-nine and a half days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 nine	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nine	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 half	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 half	det
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 nine	conj
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately three hundred and sixty-five days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sixty	cc
5	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sixty	punct
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately fourteen days

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	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Precisely seven days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	2 seven	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	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.

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