Exam question 4 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta
Ascertain the status of the helots within Spartan society.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: status
This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» 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 | 3 status | det |
| 3 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 helots | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 helots | det |
| 6 | helots | helot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 status | nmod |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 society | case |
| 8 | Spartan | spartan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 society | amod |
| 9 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helots | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the status of the helots within Spartan society | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=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
Foreign merchants resident in Athens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 merchants | amod |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 merchants | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Athens | case |
| 5 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 merchants | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | merchant | present | resident | Athens | tree rules |
Option 2
Priests of Athena upon the Acropolis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Athena | case |
| 3 | Athena | Athena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Priests | nmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 Acropolis | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Acropolis | det |
| 6 | Acropolis | Acropolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Athena | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The hereditary kings of Sparta
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kings | det |
| 2 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kings | amod |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sparta | case |
| 5 | Sparta | Sparta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kings | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An enslaved population compelled to cultivate the land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 population | det |
| 2 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 population | amod |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 population | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 cultivate | mark |
| 6 | cultivate | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 compelled | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cultivate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enslave | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | compel | participle | a enslaved population not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | cultivate | to-infinitive | the land | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Product |
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