Exam question 1 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

Identify the continent which is established as the original home of anatomically modern humans.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, establish · To what, where: continent

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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 continent	det
3	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 established	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 established	aux:pass
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 continent	acl:relcl
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 home	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 home	det
9	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 home	amod
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 established	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 humans	case
12	anatomically	anatomically	ADV	_	13 modern	advmod
13	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 humans	amod
14	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 home	nmod
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 continent					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent continent=Theme
2	establish	present · passive		the continent				as the original home of modern humans	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

South America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 America	compound
2	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Antarctica

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	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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