Exam question 4 · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

Ascertain which territory alone remained in English possession in France subsequent to 1453.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, territory · What happens: ascertain, remain · To what, where: English possession

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 territory	det
3	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	nsubj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 remained	advmod
5	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 possession	case
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 possession	compound
8	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 subsequent	case
10	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 subsequent	compound
11	subsequent	subsequent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possession	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 1453	case
13	1453	1453	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 remained	obl
14	.	.	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	remain	past	which territory			English possession in France subsequent		to 1453; alone property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in possession=Location

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

Gascony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gascony	gascony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Brittany

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brittany	Brittany	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Burgundy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burgundy	burgundy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Calais

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calais	Calais	PROPN	Number=Sing	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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