Exam question 3 · The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies

Identify the principal reason for scholarly disagreement concerning the population of Europe in 1337.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, scholarly disagreement · What happens: identify, concern · To what, where: principal reason, population, 1337

This is exam question 3 of lesson 40 «The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 disagreement	case
6	scholarly	scholarly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 disagreement	amod
7	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reason	nmod
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 disagreement	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 population	det
10	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Europe	case
12	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 population	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1337	case
14	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 concerning	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason				for scholarly disagreement	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	concern	gerund	scholarly disagreement not said here	the population of Europe		1337			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus population=Experiencer

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

Population was not subject to change in that period, and was never counted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 subject	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 subject	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 subject	advmod
4	subject	subject	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 change	mark
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 subject	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 period	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 period	det
9	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 counted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 counted	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 counted	aux:pass
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 counted	advmod
14	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 subject	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Population		subject property	tree rules
2	change	to-infinitive	Population not said here	that period		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not count	past · passive	Population not said here			vn matter-91 «NP V»

Option 2

Every inhabitant was recorded twice, by the lord and by the parish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 inhabitant	det
2	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recorded	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recorded	aux:pass
4	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 recorded	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lord	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 lord	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lord	det
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recorded	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 parish	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 parish	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 parish	det
13	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lord	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	past · passive	the lord and the parish	every inhabitant				twice property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Comprehensive censuses were seldom conducted, so figures are estimates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comprehensive	comprehensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 censuses	amod
2	censuses	census	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 conducted	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 conducted	aux:pass
4	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	5 conducted	advmod
5	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 estimates	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 estimates	advmod
8	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 estimates	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 estimates	cop
10	estimates	estimate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 conducted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	past · passive		Comprehensive censuses				seldom property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	present	figures	estimates					tree rules

Option 4

Contemporary records are complete but secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 records	amod
2	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 complete	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 complete	cop
4	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 secret	cc
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 complete	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Contemporary records					complete property	tree rules
2	be		Contemporary records not said here						tree rules

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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