Exam question 4 · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands
State the year from which Gibraltar has been held as a British territory.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: hold · To what, where: Gibraltar
This is exam question 4 of lesson 39 «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 held | obl |
| 6 | Gibraltar | Gibraltar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 held | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 held | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 held | aux:pass |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 year | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 territory | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 territory | det |
| 12 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 territory | amod |
| 13 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · perfect · passive | Gibraltar | from the year | as a British territory | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 right answer
1713
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1713 | 1713 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1959
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1982
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1982 | 1982 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1492
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1492 | 1492 | 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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