Exam question 2 · Map reading puzzles
It is given that one centimetre upon a map represents two kilometres. Determine the real distance represented by five centimetres.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: one centimetre, you · What happens: give, represent, determine · To what, where: It, two kilometres, real distance
This is exam question 2 of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» 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 one centimetre upon a map represents two kilometres.
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 | SCONJ | _ | 10 represents | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 centimetre | nummod |
| 6 | centimetre | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 represents | nsubj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 map | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 map | det |
| 9 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centimetre | nmod |
| 10 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 kilometres | nummod |
| 12 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 represents | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | represent | present | one centimetre upon a map | two kilometres | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kilometre=Theme |
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 real distance represented by five centimetres.
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 | 4 distance | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distance | amod |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 distance | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 centimetres | case |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 centimetres | nummod |
| 8 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 represented | obl |
| 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 real distance | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic | ||||
| 2 | represent | participle | the real distance not said here | by five centimetres | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ten kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kilometres | nummod |
| 2 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Seven kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kilometres | nummod |
| 2 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two and a half kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kilometres | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 kilometres | compound |
| 5 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Two | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Five kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kilometres | nummod |
| 2 | kilometres | kilometre | 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/49-map-puzzles/e2/