Exam question 1 · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

Identify the scholar from whose name the term algorithm is derived.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, name · What happens: identify, derive · To what, where: scholar, name, term algorithm

This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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 scholar	det
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 name	case
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 algorithm	det
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 algorithm	compound
9	algorithm	algorithm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 derived	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 derived	aux:pass
11	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 name	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the scholar		name			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent scholar=Theme
2	derive	present · passive	name not said here	the term algorithm					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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

Mansa Musa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mansa	Mansa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Musa	Musa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mansa	flat

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

Option 2

Ibn Battuta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Battuta	Battuta	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ibn	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Al-Khwarizmi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Khwarizmi	punct
3	Khwarizmi	Khwarizmi	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Al	flat

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

Option 4

Ibn Sina

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Sina	Sina	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ibn	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/e1/