Exam question 3 · Mammals and how they care for their young

Ascertain the approximate period for which an elephant mother carries her young before birth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, elephant mother · What happens: ascertain, carry · To what, where: approximate period, young

This is exam question 3 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 period	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 period	amod
4	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 carries	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mother	det
8	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	compound
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carries	nsubj
10	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 period	acl:relcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 young	nmod:poss
12	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carries	obj
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 birth	case
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carries	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate period					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic
2	carry	present	a elephant mother	mother's young			before birth	for the approximate period	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About 9 months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 9	advmod
2	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

About 40 months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 40	advmod
2	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About 22 months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 22	advmod
2	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

About 6 months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 6	advmod
2	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	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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