Exam question 1 · The first farms and towns

Identify the region in which, approximately twelve millennia ago, the cultivation of wheat and barley is first attested.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, attest, cultivate · To what, where: region, cultivation, wheat

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2 «The first farms and towns» 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	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 millennia	punct
7	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	8 twelve	advmod
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 millennia	nummod
9	millennia	millennia	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	1 Identify	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cultivation	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cultivation	det
13	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 attested	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wheat	case
15	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cultivation	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 barley	cc
17	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wheat	conj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 attested	aux:pass
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 attested	advmod
20	attested	attest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the region	ago property	tree rules
2	attest	present · passive		the cultivation of wheat and barley	first property	tree rules
3	cultivate			wheat and barley		nom cultivation «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 · ✓ the right answer

The Middle East

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 East	det
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 East	compound
3	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The southern tip of Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tip	det
2	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tip	amod
3	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Africa	case
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tip	nmod

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

Option 3

Northern and Western Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Europe	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Western	cc
3	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Northern	conj
4	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

North America and Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 America	compound
2	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Canada	cc
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 America	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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