Exam question 4 · Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth

Ascertain the date upon which the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union, the referendum having been held in 2016.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, United Kingdom, referendum · What happens: ascertain, withdraw, have, hold · To what, where: date, European Union, 2016

This is exam question 4 of lesson 38 «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» 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 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 withdrew	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Kingdom	det
7	United	United	PROPN	_	8 Kingdom	flat
8	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 withdrew	nsubj
9	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 date	parataxis
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 Union	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Union	det
12	European	European	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Union	compound
13	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 withdrew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 referendum	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 referendum	det
16	referendum	referendum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Union	appos
17	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 referendum	acl
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 held	aux:pass
19	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 having	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 2016	case
21	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 held	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the date			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	withdraw	past	the United Kingdom		the European Union	upon the date	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from union=Initial_Location
3	have	gerund	the referendum not said here				tree rules
4	hold	participle · passive	the referendum not said here		2016		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: in 2016=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

2007

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2007	2007	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

2016

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

1973

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1973	1973	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

2020

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	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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