Exam question 3 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

Ascertain the instrument regarded as the founding document of New Zealand.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, regard, found, document · To what, where: instrument, New Zealand

This is exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 instrument	det
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 instrument	acl
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 document	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 document	det
7	founding	found	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 document	amod
8	document	document	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 regarded	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Zealand	case
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Zealand	flat
11	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 document	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the instrument		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Topic
2	regard	participle		the instrument not said here	as the founding document of New Zealand	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as document=Value
3	found	gerund				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	document			New Zealand		nom document «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 Act of Union of 1707

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Act	det
2	Act	Act	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Union	case
4	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Act	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 1707	case
6	1707	1707	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Act	nmod

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

Option 2

The Statute of Westminster of 1931

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Statute	det
2	Statute	Statute	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Westminster	case
4	Westminster	Westminster	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Statute	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 1931	case
6	1931	1931	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Statute	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Treaty of Waitangi of 1840

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Treaty	det
2	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Waitangi	case
4	Waitangi	Waitangi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Treaty	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 1840	case
6	1840	1840	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Treaty	nmod

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

Option 4

The Treaty of Paris of 1783

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Treaty	det
2	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Paris	case
4	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Treaty	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 1783	case
6	1783	1783	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Treaty	nmod

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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