Exam question 1 · Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature

Ascertain the number of grams contained in one kilogram.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, contain · To what, where: number, grams, one kilogram

This is exam question 1 of lesson 90 «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 grams	case
5	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grams	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 kilogram	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 kilogram	nummod
9	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contained	obl
10	.	.	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 number of grams					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	contain	participle		grams not said here		one kilogram			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in kilogram=Location

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

Ten thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	list

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

Option 3

One hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod

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

Option 4

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/90-measuring-the-world/e1/