Exam question 3 · Laws, voting and how a country is run

Ascertain the maximum number of terms which a President of the United States may serve.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, President · What happens: ascertain, serve · To what, where: maximum number, terms

This is exam question 3 of lesson 96 «Laws, voting and how a country is run» 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 number	det
3	maximum	maximum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 number	amod
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 terms	case
6	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 serve	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 President	det
9	President	President	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 serve	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 States	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 States	det
12	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 States	amod
13	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 President	nmod
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 serve	aux
15	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 terms	acl:relcl
16	.	.	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 maximum number of terms					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	serve	may	a President of the United States	terms					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

Two terms of four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 terms	nummod
2	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 terms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	term			four years					nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

One term of eight years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 term	nummod
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 term	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	term			eight years					nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Three terms of four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 terms	nummod
2	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 terms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	term			four years					nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

An unlimited number of terms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 number	det
2	unlimited	unlimited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 number	amod
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 terms	case
5	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod

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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