Exam question 4 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean

State the year in which the Republic of Venice was terminated, and by whom.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: terminate · To what, where: State

This is exam question 4 of lesson 32 «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 terminated	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 terminated	obl:unmarked
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 terminated	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Republic	det
7	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 terminated	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Venice	case
9	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Republic	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 terminated	aux:pass
11	terminated	terminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whom	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 whom	cc
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 terminated	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 terminated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	terminate	past · passive		State			year		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

In 1336, by the Doge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1336	case
2	1336	1336	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1336	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Doge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Doge	det
6	Doge	Doge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 1336	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

In 1797, by Napoleon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1797	case
2	1797	1797	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1797	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Napoleon	case
5	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 1797	nmod

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

Option 3

In 1453, by Mehmed II

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1453	case
2	1453	1453	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1453	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Mehmed	case
5	Mehmed	Mehmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 1453	nmod
6	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	2 1453	flat

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

Option 4

In 1571, by the Pope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1571	case
2	1571	1571	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1571	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Pope	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pope	det
6	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 1571	nmod

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

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