Exam question 3 · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us

Ascertain the year in which the Byzantine Empire, successor to the eastern Roman Empire, came to an end.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Byzantine Empire · What happens: ascertain, come · To what, where: end

This is exam question 3 of lesson 16 «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 came	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Empire	det
7	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Empire	compound
8	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 successor	punct
10	successor	successor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Empire	appos
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 Empire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Empire	det
13	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Empire	amod
14	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Empire	compound
15	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 successor	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Empire	punct
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 year	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 end	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 end	det
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here				year		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the Byzantine Empire				to a end; in the year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

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

476

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	476	476	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

410

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	410	410	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

1066

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1066	1066	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

1453

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1453	1453	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	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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