Exam question 1 · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Columbian exchange?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: Columbian exchange

This is exam question 1 of lesson 289 «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 exchange	det
10	Columbian	columbian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 exchange	amod
11	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the Columbian exchange				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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 exchange of currency in the ports of Genoa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 exchange	det
2	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 currency	case
4	currency	currency	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exchange	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ports	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ports	det
7	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 exchange	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Genoa	case
9	Genoa	Genoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ports	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exchange			currency		the ports of Genoa			nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient in=place

Option 2

The voyage of spices from Europe to Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 voyage	det
2	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 spices	case
4	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 voyage	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Europe	case
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spices	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Asia	case
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spices	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	voyage			spices from Europe to Asia					nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

A commercial agreement between Spain and Portugal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 agreement	det
2	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 agreement	amod
3	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 Spain	case
5	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 agreement	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Portugal	cc
7	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Spain	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The transfer of crops, livestock and diseases between the Americas and the rest of the world following 1492

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 transfer	det
2	transfer	transfer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 crops	case
4	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 transfer	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 livestock	punct
6	livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crops	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 diseases	cc
8	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crops	conj
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 Americas	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Americas	det
11	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 diseases	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rest	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transfer	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rest	nmod
18	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 transfer	acl
19	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 following	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund	the transfer of crops and livestock and diseases between the Americas and the rest of the world not said here	1492					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1492=Theme
2	transfer			crops and livestock and diseases between the Americas					nom transfer «act transitive»: of=patient

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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