--- title: Ascertain the period for which an elephant carries her young prior t… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the period for which an elephant carries her young prior to birth. Exam question 4 of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/49-babies/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/49-babies/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents Ascertain the period for which an elephant carries her young prior to birth. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, elephant · **What happens:** ascertain, carry · **To what, where:** period, young birth This is exam question 4 of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/49-babies/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the period for which an elephant carries her young prior to birth. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 obl _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 prior prior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 13 case _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the period | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic | | 2 | **carry** | present | a elephant | elephant's young birth | | | | for the period | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Approximately four and a half years ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:e4:o1:1 # text = Approximately four and a half years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 compound _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Approximately nine months ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:e4:o2:1 # text = Approximately nine months 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Approximately twenty-two months ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:e4:o3:1 # text = Approximately twenty-two months 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Approximately two months ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:e4:o4:1 # text = Approximately two months 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 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. 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