Exam question 4 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Great Famine in Ireland.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, Great Famine, Ireland

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Famine	det
11	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Famine	amod
12	Famine	Famine	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Ireland	case
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Famine	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the Great Famine	Ireland		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus famine=Experiencer

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

It occurred in the fourteenth century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 occurred	nsubj
2	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 century	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 century	det
5	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 century	amod
6	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 occurred	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	past	It				century		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No deaths whatsoever were recorded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 deaths	det
2	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 recorded	nsubj:pass
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 deaths	acl:relcl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recorded	aux:pass
5	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	past · passive		no deaths					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

It increased the population of the island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 increased	nsubj
2	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 population	det
4	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increased	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 island	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 population	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	past	It	the population of the island					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer population=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Approximately one million persons perished and over one million emigrated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 persons	nummod
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 persons	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 emigrated	cc
7	over	over	ADV	_	9 million	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 million	compound
9	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 emigrated	nsubj
10	emigrated	emigrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 perished	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	participle		million persons not said here					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	emigrate	participle	one million						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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