Exam question 4 · The Maya

Ascertain the number of Maya books known to have survived their destruction by Spanish clergy.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, books · What happens: ascertain, know, survive, destroy · To what, where: number, Maya books, destruction

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 books	case
5	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 books	compound
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 books	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 survived	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 survived	aux
10	survived	survive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 known	xcomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 destruction	nmod:poss
12	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 survived	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 clergy	case
14	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clergy	amod
15	clergy	clergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 survived	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of Maya books		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	know	participle		Maya books not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	survive	to-infinitive · perfect		books's destruction	by Spanish clergy	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme destruction=Circumstance
4	destroy		books = book			nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Four hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

None

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 4

Forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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