Exam question 1 · The Aztecs and the Inca

Identify the Spanish leader who in 1521 subdued Tenochtitlan with the assistance of numerous indigenous allies.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Spanish leader · What happens: identify, subdue, assist · To what, where: Spanish leader, Tenochtitlan, 1521, numerous indigenous allies

This is exam question 1 of lesson 19 «The Aztecs and the Inca» 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	4 leader	det
3	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leader	amod
4	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 subdued	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1521	case
7	1521	1521	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 subdued	obl
8	subdued	subdue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leader	acl:relcl
9	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 subdued	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 assistance	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 assistance	det
12	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 subdued	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 allies	case
14	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 allies	amod
15	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 allies	amod
16	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 assistance	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the Spanish leader			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent leader=Theme
2	subdue	past	the Spanish leader	Tenochtitlan	1521	with the assistance of numerous indigenous allies	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tenochtitlan=Patient with assistance=Instrument
3	assist			numerous indigenous allies			nom assistance «act 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

Ferdinand Magellan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ferdinand	flat

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

Option 2

Christopher Columbus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Christopher	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hernán Cortés

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hernán	Hernán	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Cortés	Cortés	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hernán	flat

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

Option 4

Francisco Pizarro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Francisco	Francisco	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Pizarro	Pizarro	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Francisco	flat

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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