Exam question 2 · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

Ascertain the duration, in years, of the conflict designated the Hundred Years' War.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, conflict · What happens: ascertain, designate · To what, where: duration, War

This is exam question 2 of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 years	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 designated	punct
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 designated	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 conflict	det
10	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 designated	nsubj
11	designated	designate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Years	det
13	Hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Years	nummod
14	Years	Year	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 War	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 Years	case
16	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 designated	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the duration			year		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	designate	past	the conflict	the Hundred Years's War					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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

Fifty-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One hundred and sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sixteen	cc
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 3

Precisely one hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

One thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	list

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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