Exam question 4 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

Ascertain the approximate antiquity of the body designated Ötzi, recovered from the Alpine ice in 1991.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, approximate antiquity · What happens: ascertain, designate, recover · To what, where: Ötzi, Alpine ice

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 antiquity	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 antiquity	amod
4	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 designated	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 antiquity	nmod
8	designated	designate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	parataxis
9	Ötzi	Ötzi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 designated	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 recovered	punct
11	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 designated	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 ice	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ice	det
14	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ice	amod
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recovered	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 1991	case
17	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 recovered	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	designate	past	the approximate antiquity of the body	Ötzi			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ötzi=Theme
3	recover	past	the approximate antiquity of the body not said here		the Alpine ice	in 1991	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from ice=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 right answer

Approximately 5,300 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 5,300	advmod
2	5,300	5,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately 530 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 530	advmod
2	530	530	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately 5.3 million years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	5.3	5.3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately 53,000 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 53,000	advmod
2	53,000	53,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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