Exam question 1 · Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads

Identify the extent of the Roman Empire at its greatest dimensions.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, extend · To what, where: extent, greatest dimensions, Roman Empire

This is exam question 1 of lesson 14 «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» 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 extent	det
3	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Empire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Empire	det
6	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Empire	compound
7	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 extent	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 dimensions	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dimensions	nmod:poss
10	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 dimensions	amod
11	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
12	.	.	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 extent of the Roman Empire		Empire's greatest dimensions			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent extent=Theme
2	extend			the Roman Empire					nom extent «state transitive»: of=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

From Gaul in the west as far as China in the east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 Gaul	case
2	Gaul	Gaul	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 west	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 west	det
5	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gaul	nmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 China	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 China	case
9	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 west	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 east	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 east	det
12	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 China	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

From Britain to Egypt and from Spain to Syria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 Britain	case
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Egypt	case
4	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Britain	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Spain	cc
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Spain	case
7	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Egypt	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Syria	case
9	Syria	Syria	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Spain	nmod

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

Option 3

From Iceland to India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 Iceland	case
2	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 India	case
4	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Iceland	nmod

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

Option 4

From Italy to Greece only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 Italy	case
2	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Greece	case
4	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Italy	nmod
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 Greece	advmod

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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