Exam question 4 · The people who were already there: what colonisation did
State the approximate present number of Indigenous persons in the world.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗
This is exam question 4 of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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 | 5 number | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 number | amod |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 number | amod |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 persons | case |
| 7 | Indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 persons | amod |
| 8 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 persons | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 number | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Approximately four hundred and seventy-six thousand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seventy | cc |
| 5 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 seventy | punct |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thousand | nummod |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Approximately four hundred and seventy-six million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seventy | cc |
| 5 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 seventy | punct |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 million | compound |
| 8 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Approximately four billion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 billion | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 billion | compound |
| 3 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
None whatsoever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 1 None | advmod |
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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