Exam question 4 · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…
Ascertain the year in which Ueno Zoo, the oldest zoological institution in Japan, was opened to the public.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, open · To what, where: Ueno Zoo, public
This is exam question 4 of lesson 117 «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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.
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 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 opened | obl |
| 6 | Ueno | Ueno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Zoo | compound |
| 7 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 institution | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 institution | det |
| 10 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 institution | amod |
| 11 | zoological | zoological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 institution | amod |
| 12 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Zoo | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Japan | case |
| 14 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 institution | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Zoo | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 opened | aux:pass |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 year | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 public | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 public | det |
| 20 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | year | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past · passive | Ueno Zoo | the public | in the year | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in which=Topic to public=Recipient |
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
Eighteen hundred and eighty-two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 two | cc |
| 4 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 two | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 eighty | punct |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Eighteen hundred and twenty-eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 eight | cc |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 eight | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 twenty | punct |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seventeen hundred and fifty-two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 two | cc |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 two | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fifty | punct |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nineteen hundred and ninety-four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 four | cc |
| 4 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 four | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ninety | punct |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
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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