Exam question 2 · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

Identify the person credited with the discovery of an efficient method of pollinating vanilla by hand.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, efficient method · What happens: identify, credit, pollinate, discover · To what, where: person, efficient method

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	credited	credit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 person	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 discovery	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 discovery	det
7	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 credited	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 method	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 method	det
10	efficient	efficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 method	amod
11	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discovery	nmod
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 pollinating	mark
13	pollinating	pollinate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 method	acl
14	vanilla	vanilla	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pollinating	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 hand	case
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vanilla	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the person		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	credit	participle		the person not said here	with the discovery of a efficient method	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with discovery=Theme
3	pollinate	gerund	a efficient method not said here		vanilla property	tree rules
4	discover			a efficient method		nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Aztec emperor of Mexico

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
2	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 emperor	compound
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Mexico	case
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 emperor	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Edmond Albius, a twelve-year-old enslaved boy upon the island of Réunion

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Edmond	Edmond	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Albius	Albius	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Edmond	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 year	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twelve	punct
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 old	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 year	punct
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
10	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Edmond	appos
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 island	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 island	det
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boy	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Réunion	case
16	Réunion	Réunion	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 island	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enslave	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A French professor of botany in Paris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 professor	det
2	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 professor	amod
3	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 botany	case
5	botany	botany	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 professor	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Paris	case
7	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 professor	nmod

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

Option 4

Christopher Columbus, upon his first voyage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Christopher	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Christopher	punct
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 voyage	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 voyage	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 voyage	amod
7	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Christopher	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	voyage		Christopher						nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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