Exam question 3 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the city of Jerusalem in the period of the Crusades.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, city, period

This is exam question 3 of lesson 21 «Castles, knights and cathedrals» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Jerusalem	case
15	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 city	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 period	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 period	det
18	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Crusades	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Crusades	det
21	Crusades	Crusade	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 period	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the city of Jerusalem	the period of the Crusades		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus city=Experiencer

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

It was held sacred by Christians alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	aux:pass
3	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 held	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Christians	case
6	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 held	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 held	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · passive	Christians	It				alone, sacred property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

It was the capital of England

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 capital	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 capital	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 England	case
6	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the capital				of England	tree rules

Option 3

It was of no religious consequence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consequence	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 consequence	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 consequence	det
5	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 consequence	amod
6	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					of no religious consequence	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was held sacred by Christians, Jews and Muslims alike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	aux:pass
3	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 held	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Christians	case
6	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 held	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Jews	punct
8	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Christians	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Muslims	cc
10	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Christians	conj
11	alike	alike	ADV	_	3 held	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · passive	Christians and Jews and Muslims	It				alike, sacred property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/e3/