Exam question 4 · Dances of the world and dancing at parties

Ascertain the region from which the dance known as flamenco originates.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dance · What happens: ascertain, know, originate · To what, where: region, dance

This is exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» 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	3 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 originates	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dance	det
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 originates	nsubj
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dance	acl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 flamenco	case
10	flamenco	flamenco	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 known	obl
11	originates	originate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 region	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the region			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Topic
2	know	participle		the dance not said here		as flamenco	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as flamenco=Attribute
3	originate	present	the dance		the region		vn establish-55.5-1 «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

The Caribbean islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 islands	det
2	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 islands	amod
3	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Punjab in South Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Punjab	Punjab	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Asia	case
3	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Asia	compound
4	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Punjab	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Andalusia in southern Spain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Andalusia	Andalusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Spain	case
3	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Spain	amod
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Andalusia	nmod

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

Option 4

The Levant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Levant	det
2	Levant	Levant	PROPN	Number=Sing	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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