Exam question 2 · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew
State the year in which serfdom was abolished within the Russian Empire.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: abolish · To what, where: State
This is exam question 2 of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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 | 8 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 serfdom | case |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 serfdom | det |
| 6 | serfdom | serfdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 abolished | aux:pass |
| 8 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 Empire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Empire | det |
| 11 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Empire | amod |
| 12 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 abolished | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 abolished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abolish | past · passive | State the year in which serfdom | within the Russian Empire | vn remove-10.1 «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
1789
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1789 | 1789 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1707
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1707 | 1707 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1480
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1480 | 1480 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
1861
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1861 | 1861 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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