Exam question 3 · Languages and peoples on the map

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the number of languages presently spoken.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, speak · To what, where: response, number, languages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 25 «Languages and peoples on the map» 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	11 number	det
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 languages	case
13	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 number	nmod
14	presently	presently	ADV	_	15 spoken	advmod
15	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 languages	acl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 number of languages		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus number=Experiencer
4	speak speech: other	participle		languages not said here	presently property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Approximately seven hundred thousand, of which none whatsoever is endangered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 thousand	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thousand	compound
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 none	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 none	case
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 none	det
8	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 thousand	appos
9	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 endangered	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 endangered	cop
11	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 none	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	whatsoever					endangered property	tree rules

Option 2

Exactly one per sovereign state

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	per	per	ADP	_	5 state	case
4	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 state	compound
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod

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

Option 3

Approximately seventy, all of which are secure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 seventy	advmod
2	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 secure	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 secure	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 all	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 secure	cop
8	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seventy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all					secure property	tree rules

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

Approximately seven thousand, of which nearly one half are endangered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 endangered	punct
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 endangered	obl
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 half	nummod
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 endangered	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 endangered	cop
11	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thousand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	one half					endangered property	tree rules

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