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Exam question 4 · Population and cities

It is given that the Black Death traversed Europe between 1347 and 1351. Ascertain the proportion of the population of Europe it is estimated to have destroyed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Black Death, you, proportion · What happens: give, traverse, ascertain, estimate, destroy · To what, where: It, Europe, proportion

This is exam question 4 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that the Black Death traversed Europe between 1347 and 1351.

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	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 traversed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Death	det
6	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Death	flat
7	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 traversed	nsubj
8	traversed	traverse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 traversed	obj
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 1347	case
11	1347	1347	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 traversed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 1351	cc
13	1351	1351	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 1347	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	traverse	past	the Black Death	Europe				between 1347	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme europe=Co-Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Ascertain the proportion of the population of Europe it is estimated to have destroyed.

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 proportion	det
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 population	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 population	det
6	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proportion	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Europe	case
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 population	nmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 estimated	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 estimated	aux:pass
11	estimated	estimate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 proportion	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 destroyed	mark
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 destroyed	aux
14	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 estimated	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the proportion of the population of Europe					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic
2	estimate	present · passive	the proportion of the population of Europe not said here	proportion					tree rules
3	destroy	to-infinitive · perfect	the proportion of the population of Europe not said here						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Perhaps one third to one half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 third	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 third	nummod
3	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 half	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 half	nummod
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 third	nmod

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

Option 2

Approximately ninety-nine per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 nine	advmod
2	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nine	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ninety	punct
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cent	nummod
5	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cent	compound
6	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

None whatsoever, it affected livestock alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	1 None	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 livestock	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 livestock	nsubj
5	affected	affected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 livestock	amod
6	livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 None	conj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 livestock	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	livestock		it					alone property	tree rules

Option 4

Approximately one per cent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	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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