Exam question 4 · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

Ascertain the years in which Hong Kong and Macau were respectively restored to China.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, restore · To what, where: Hong, China

This is exam question 4 of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 restored	obl
6	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 restored	nsubj:pass
7	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hong	flat
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Macau	cc
9	Macau	Macau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hong	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 restored	aux:pass
11	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	12 restored	advmod
12	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 years	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 China	case
14	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 restored	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here				year		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	restore	past · passive		Hong and Macau	China		in the years	respectively property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to china=Recipient

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

1810 and 1825

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1810	1810	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 1825	cc
3	1825	1825	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 1810	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

1997 and 1999

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1997	1997	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 1999	cc
3	1999	1999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 1997	conj

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

Option 3

1947 and 1960

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1947	1947	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 1960	cc
3	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 1947	conj

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

Option 4

1922 and 1923

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1922	1922	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 1923	cc
3	1923	1923	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 1922	conj

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

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