Exam question 4 · Photography and phone cameras

Ascertain the approximate date and author of the oldest surviving photograph taken with a camera.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, survive, take · To what, where: approximate date, oldest surviving photograph

This is exam question 4 of lesson 20 «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts 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 date	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 date	amod
4	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 author	cc
6	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 date	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 photograph	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 photograph	det
9	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 photograph	amod
10	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 photograph	amod
11	photograph	photograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 author	nmod
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 photograph	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 camera	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 camera	det
15	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taken	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate date and author of the oldest surviving photograph		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	survive	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	participle		the oldest surviving photograph not said here	with a camera	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

An unknown maker of mobile telephones, in the year 2007

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 maker	det
2	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maker	amod
3	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 telephones	case
5	mobile	mobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 telephones	amod
6	telephones	telephone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 maker	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 year	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maker	nmod
11	2007	2007	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 year	flat

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

Option 2

Andy Warhol, in New York, in the United States, in the 1960s

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Andy	Andy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Warhol	Warhol	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Andy	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 York	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 York	case
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 York	flat
6	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Andy	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 States	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 States	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 States	det
10	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 States	amod
11	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Andy	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 1960s	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 1960s	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 1960s	det
15	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	1 Andy	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nicéphore Niépce, in France, around 1826 or 1827

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nicéphore	Nicéphore	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Niépce	Niépce	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nicéphore	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 France	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 France	case
5	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nicéphore	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 1826	punct
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 1826	case
8	1826	1826	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Nicéphore	list
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 1827	cc
10	1827	1827	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 1826	conj

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

Option 4

Leonardo da Vinci, in Florence, Italy, around the year 1500

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leonardo	Leonardo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	da	Da	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Leonardo	flat
3	Vinci	Vinci	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Leonardo	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Florence	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Florence	case
6	Florence	Florence	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Leonardo	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Italy	punct
8	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Leonardo	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 year	punct
10	around	around	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leonardo	appos
13	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 year	flat

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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