Exam question 4 · Coal, oil and gas

Ascertain the year in which the last coal-fired power station in Britain was closed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, fire, close · To what, where: last fired power station

This is exam question 4 of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» 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 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 closed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 station	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 station	amod
8	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fired	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 coal	punct
10	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 station	amod
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 station	compound
12	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 closed	nsubj:pass
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Britain	case
14	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 station	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 closed	aux:pass
16	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 year	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here		year	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	fire	participle				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	close	past · passive		the last fired power station in Britain	in the year	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in which=Topic

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

Two thousand and fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	conj

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

Option 2

Nineteen hundred and twenty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 four	cc
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 four	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 twenty	punct
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 3

Eighteen hundred and forty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 forty	cc
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	nmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 forty	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two thousand and twenty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 four	cc
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 four	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 twenty	punct
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	conj

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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