Exam question 4 · Evolution simply: why living things change over many gener…
State the name of the publication of Charles Darwin which appeared in the year 1859.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, name · What happens: state, appear, name, publish · To what, where: name, publication, Charles
This is exam question 4 of lesson 73 «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 publication | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 publication | det |
| 6 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Charles | case |
| 8 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 publication | nmod |
| 9 | Darwin | Darwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Charles | flat |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 name | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | obl |
| 15 | 1859 | 1859 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 year | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the name of the publication of Charles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the name of the publication of Charles | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | the publication of Charles | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | publish | Charles | nom publication «communication 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 · ✓ the right answer
On the Origin of Species
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Origin | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Origin | det |
| 3 | Origin | Origin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Species | case |
| 5 | Species | Specie | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Origin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Natural History of Selborne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 History | det |
| 2 | Natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 History | amod |
| 3 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Selborne | case |
| 5 | Selborne | Selborne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 History | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Descent of the Beagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Descent | det |
| 2 | Descent | Descent | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Beagle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Beagle | det |
| 5 | Beagle | Beagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Descent | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Voyage of the Galapagos
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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Galapagos | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Galapagos | det |
| 5 | Galapagos | Galapagos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Voyage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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