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Exam question 4 · Languages and peoples on the map

It is given that a people of over thirty million persons is divided chiefly between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria and possesses no state of its own. Ascertain the people thus described.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, people · What happens: give, divide, possess, ascertain, describe · To what, where: It, people, state

This is exam question 4 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a people of over thirty million persons is divided chiefly between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria and possesses no state of its own.

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	_	13 divided	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 divided	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 persons	case
8	over	over	ADV	_	10 million	advmod
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 million	compound
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 persons	nummod
11	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 people	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 divided	aux:pass
13	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
14	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	13 divided	advmod
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 Turkey	case
16	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 divided	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Iran	punct
18	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Turkey	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Iraq	punct
20	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Turkey	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Syria	cc
22	Syria	Syria	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Iraq	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 possesses	cc
24	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 state	det
26	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 possesses	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 own	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 own	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 state	nmod
30	.	.	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	divide	present · passive		a people of million persons				between Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria; chiefly property	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	possess	present		no state of state's own					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot state=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 people thus described.

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 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 described	nsubj
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 described	advmod
5	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	describe	past	the people					thus property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Armenians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Armenians	det
2	Armenians	Armenian	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The Basques

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Basques	det
2	Basques	basque	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Kurds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Kurds	det
2	Kurds	Kurd	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The Persians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Persians	det
2	Persians	Persian	PROPN	Number=Plur	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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