Exam question 1 · The human life cycle and growing up

Ascertain the approximate period for which a baby grows inside its mother's womb.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, baby · What happens: ascertain, grow · To what, where: approximate period, womb

This is exam question 1 of lesson 92 «The human life cycle and growing up» 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	9 grows	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grows	nsubj
9	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 period	acl:relcl
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 womb	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 womb	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mother	case
14	womb	womb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grows	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	grow	present	a baby			baby's mother's womb		for the approximate period	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside womb=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

About eighteen months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 eighteen	advmod
2	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word 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 · ✓ the right answer

About nine months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 nine	advmod
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word 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

About six weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

About three months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word 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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