Exam question 4 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings

Ascertain the person who, circa the year 1000, reached the coast of North America, designated by the Norse as Vinland.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: ascertain, reach, designate · To what, where: person, coast

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 reached	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct
6	circa	circa	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obl
9	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 year	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 person	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coast	det
13	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 America	case
15	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 America	compound
16	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 coast	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 designated	punct
18	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 person	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 Norse	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Norse	det
21	Norse	norse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 designated	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 Vinland	case
23	Vinland	Vinland	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Norse	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the person			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic
2	reach	past	the person	the coast of North America	year		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coast=Theme
3	designate	participle		the person not said here		by the Norse	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Marco Polo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marco	Marco	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Polo	Polo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Marco	flat

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

Option 2

Harald Hardrada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harald	Harald	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Hardrada	Hardrada	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Harald	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Leif Erikson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leif	Leif	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Erikson	Erikson	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Leif	flat

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

Option 4

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.

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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