Exam question 1 · The Maya

Identify the region inhabited by the Maya civilisation.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, inhabit · To what, where: region

This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The Maya» 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 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 region	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 civilisation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 civilisation	det
7	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 civilisation	compound
8	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inhabited	obl
9	.	.	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 region					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent region=Theme
2	inhabit	participle		the region not said here				by the Maya civilisation	tree rules

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 Andes of Peru

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Andes	det
2	Andes	Ande	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Peru	case
4	Peru	Peru	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Andes	nmod

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

Option 2

The valley of the Nile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 valley	det
2	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Nile	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Nile	det
5	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 valley	nmod

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

Option 3

The Great Plains of North America, beside the Mississippi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Plains	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Plains	amod
3	Plains	Plain	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 America	case
5	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	compound
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Plains	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Mississippi	punct
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 Mississippi	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mississippi	det
10	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Plains	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Southern Mexico and Central America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Mexico	amod
2	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 America	cc
4	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 America	flat
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mexico	conj

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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