Exam question 1 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings

Identify the approximate chronological limits of the period designated the Middle Ages in Europe.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, approximate chronological limits · What happens: identify, designate · To what, where: Middle Ages, Europe

This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» 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	5 limits	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 limits	amod
4	chronological	chronological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 limits	amod
5	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 designated	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 period	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 period	det
8	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 limits	nmod
9	designated	designate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Ages	det
11	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ages	flat
12	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 designated	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Europe	case
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 designated	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here						vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	designate	past	the approximate chronological limits of the period	the Middle Ages		Europe			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme

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

From approximately 3000 BC to the foundation of Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 3000	case
2	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 3000	advmod
3	3000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
4	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 3000	nmod:unmarked
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 foundation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foundation	det
7	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 3000	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Rome	case
9	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 foundation	nmod

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

Option 2

From 1066 to 1100

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 1066	case
2	1066	1066	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 1100	case
4	1100	1100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1066	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

From approximately 500 to approximately 1500

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 500	case
2	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 500	advmod
3	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 1500	case
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 1500	advmod
6	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 500	nmod

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

Option 4

From approximately 1500 to approximately 1900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 1500	case
2	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 1500	advmod
3	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 1900	case
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 1900	advmod
6	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 1500	nmod

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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