Exam question 4 · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

Ascertain the land in which the numerals nought to nine, commonly termed Arabic, were originally developed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, term, develop · To what, where: land, Arabic, nought

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 developed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nought	det
7	numerals	numeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nought	compound
8	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 developed	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 nine	case
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 nought	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 termed	punct
12	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	13 termed	advmod
13	termed	term	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nought	conj
14	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 termed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Arabic	punct
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 developed	aux:pass
17	originally	originally	ADV	_	18 developed	advmod
18	developed	develop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 land	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the land			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic
2	term	participle		Arabic		commonly property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent arabic=Result
3	develop	past · passive		nought	the land	originally property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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

India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Greece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Arabia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Spain and Portugal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Portugal	cc
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Spain	conj

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

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