Exam question 2 · The United States
Identify the state from which the Territory of Alaska was acquired in 1867.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, acquire · To what, where: state, Territory
This is exam question 2 of lesson 9 «The United States» 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 | 3 state | det |
| 3 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 acquired | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Territory | det |
| 7 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acquired | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Alaska | case |
| 9 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Territory | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 acquired | aux:pass |
| 11 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 state | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1867 | case |
| 13 | 1867 | 1867 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 acquired | obl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 state | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme | ||||
| 2 | acquire | past · passive | the Territory of Alaska | the state | in 1867 | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source |
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 Kingdom of Spain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Kingdom | det |
| 2 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Spain | case |
| 4 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kingdom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Kingdom of Denmark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Kingdom | det |
| 2 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Denmark | case |
| 4 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kingdom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The United Kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Kingdom | det |
| 2 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 3 Kingdom | flat |
| 3 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Russian Empire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empire | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Empire | amod |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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