Exam question 4 · Endangered animals and extinction

State the year in which the last known passenger pigeon, named Martha, died at Cincinnati Zoo.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: know, name, die · To what, where: last known passenger pigeon, Cincinnati Zoo

This is exam question 4 of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod:unmarked
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pigeon	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pigeon	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pigeon	amod
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pigeon	amod
9	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pigeon	compound
10	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 named	punct
12	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pigeon	acl
13	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 named	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 died	punct
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pigeon	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 Zoo	case
17	Cincinnati	Cincinnati	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Zoo	compound
18	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 died	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	participle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	name	participle	the last known passenger pigeon not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	die	past		Cincinnati Zoo	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Nineteen hundred and fourteen

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	_	4 fourteen	cc
4	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 2

Nineteen hundred and thirty-six

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 six	cc
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 six	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 thirty	punct
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 3

Eighteen hundred and forty-four

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 four	cc
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 four	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 forty	punct
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 4

Sixteen hundred and sixty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	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	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 two	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	two	two	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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