Exam question 3 · Europe: countries and capitals

Ascertain the year in which Italy was constituted as a single state.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, constitute · To what, where: Italy

This is exam question 3 of lesson 7 «Europe: countries and capitals» 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	8 constituted	obl
6	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 constituted	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 constituted	aux:pass
8	constituted	constitute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 year	acl:relcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 state	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 state	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 state	amod
12	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 constituted	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here				year		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	constitute	past · passive		Italy			in the year	as a single state	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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

Nineteen eighteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Nineteen	flat

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

Option 2

Thirteen thirty-seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirteen	list
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 seven	punct
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thirty	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Eighteen sixty-one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 one	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sixty	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eighteen	nmod

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

Option 4

Eighteen fifteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eighteen	list

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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