Exam question 1 · The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia

Identify the dynasty which exercised sovereignty over China in 1337.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dynasty · What happens: identify, exercise · To what, where: dynasty, sovereignty, China

This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dynasty	det
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 exercised	nsubj
5	exercised	exercise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dynasty	acl:relcl
6	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exercised	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 China	case
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 exercised	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1337	case
10	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 exercised	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the dynasty					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dynasty=Theme
2	exercise	past	the dynasty	sovereignty		China		in 1337	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Patient

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

The Qing dynasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dynasty	det
2	Qing	Qing	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dynasty	compound
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Ming dynasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dynasty	det
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dynasty	compound
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Mughal dynasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dynasty	det
2	Mughal	mughal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dynasty	compound
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Mongol Yuan dynasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dynasty	det
2	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dynasty	compound
3	Yuan	Yuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dynasty	compound
4	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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