Exam question 4 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires

State the commodity from which the territory of Brazil derives its name.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, territory · What happens: state, derive, name · To what, where: commodity, name

This is exam question 4 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 commodity	det
3	commodity	commodity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 derives	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 territory	det
7	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 derives	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Brazil	case
9	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 territory	nmod
10	derives	derive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 commodity	acl:relcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 derives	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the commodity		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent commodity=Topic
2	derive	present	the territory of Brazil	territory's name	the commodity	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from which=Material
3	name		territory			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Sugar cane juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cane	compound
2	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 juice	compound
3	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Brazilwood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazilwood	brazilwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Silver ore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ore	compound
2	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Spices from Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Asia	case
3	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Spices	nmod

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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