Test 11 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

Which empire around 1920 covered about a quarter of the world's land?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: empire · What happens: cover · To what, where: quarter

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 empire	det
2	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	nsubj
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 1920	case
4	1920	1920	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 empire	nmod
5	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	8 quarter	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 quarter	det
8	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 land	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 world	case
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quarter	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	which empire around 1920	a quarter of the world's land					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quarter=Destination

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

The Ottoman Empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The Spanish Empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Empire	det
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Empire	amod
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The British Empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Empire	det
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Empire	amod
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Mughal Empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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