Exam question 4 · Olympiad: the Spelling Bee

Determine which of the following is the correct spelling of the title of the kings of ancient Egypt.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, follow, be, title · To what, where: kings

This is exam question 4 of lesson 55 «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the English 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 spelling	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 spelling	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spelling	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 spelling	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 spelling	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spelling	det
8	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spelling	amod
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 title	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 title	det
12	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spelling	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 kings	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kings	det
15	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 title	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Egypt	case
17	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Egypt	amod
18	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 kings	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present			of the correct spelling; of the title of the kings of ancient Egypt	tree rules
4	title			the kings of ancient Egypt		nom title «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

pharoh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pharoh	pharoh	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2

pharoah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pharoah	pharoah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 3

farao

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	farao	farao	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

pharaoh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pharaoh	pharaoh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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