Exam question 4 · Germs, hygiene and vaccines

State the approximate duration recommended for the washing of hands with soap.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: recommend, wash · To what, where: State approximate duration, hands

This is exam question 4 of lesson 37 «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» 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	4 duration	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duration	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duration	amod
4	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 duration	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 washing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 washing	det
8	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recommended	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 hands	case
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 washing	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 soap	case
12	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washing	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 duration	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recommend	participle		the State approximate duration not said here				for the washing of hands with soap	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for washing=Attribute
2	wash			hands				with soap	nom washing «act transitive»: of=patient with=obl

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

Twenty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seconds	nummod
2	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Two minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	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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