Exam question 4 · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

Ascertain the persons excluded from voting in the assembly of Athens.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, persons · What happens: ascertain, exclude · To what, where: voting

This is exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» 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 persons	det
3	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 excluded	nsubj
4	excluded	exclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 voting	case
6	voting	voting	NOUN	_	4 excluded	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 assembly	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 assembly	det
9	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 excluded	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Athens	case
11	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 assembly	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	exclude	past	the persons			voting		in the assembly of Athens	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from voting=Eventuality

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 wealthy citizens alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 citizens	det
2	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 citizens	amod
3	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 citizens	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Women, the enslaved and foreigners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 foreigners	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foreigners	det
4	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 foreigners	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 enslaved	cc
6	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Women	conj

#	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

Option 3

Men born of Athenian parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Men	acl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 parents	case
4	Athenian	Athenian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 parents	compound
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		Men not said here				of Athenian parents	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Citizens of advanced age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 age	case
3	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 age	amod
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Citizens	nmod

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

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