Exam question 1 · The Mongols

Identify the title conferred upon Temujin in the year twelve hundred and six.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, title · What happens: identify, confer · To what, where: title, twelve hundred

This is exam question 1 of lesson 23 «The Mongols» 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 title	det
3	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 title	acl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 Temujin	case
6	Temujin	Temujin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 conferred	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hundred	obl
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	compound
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 conferred	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 six	cc
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	conj
14	.	.	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 title					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent title=Theme
2	confer	participle	the title not said here	twelve hundred				upon Temujin	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: 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

Kublai Khan, his grandson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kublai	Kublai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kublai	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grandson	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandson	nmod:poss
5	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kublai	appos

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

Option 2

A sultan of Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sultan	det
2	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Egypt	case
4	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sultan	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Genghis Khan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Genghis	Genghis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Genghis	flat

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

Option 4

Emperor of Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Rome	case
3	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Emperor	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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