Exam question 1 · The United States and its states

State the number of states constituting the United States.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, states · What happens: state, constitute · To what, where: number, United States

This is exam question 1 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» 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	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 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 states	case
5	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	constituting	constitute	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 states	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 States	det
8	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 States	amod
9	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 constituting	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of states					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	constitute	gerund	states not said here	the United States					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme state=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

Forty-eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Fifty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj

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

Option 4

Thirteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirteen	thirteen	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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