Exam question 4 · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

Ascertain which of the following was conveyed from the Americas to Europe in the course of the Columbian Exchange.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Americas · What happens: ascertain, follow, convey · To what, where: Europe, course

This is exam question 4 of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» 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	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 conveyed	obj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 conveyed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 conveyed	det
5	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 conveyed	csubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 conveyed	aux:pass
7	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Americas	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Americas	det
10	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 conveyed	obl:agent
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Europe	case
12	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 course	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 course	det
15	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 Exchange	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Exchange	det
18	Columbian	Columbian	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Exchange	compound
19	Exchange	Exchange	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 course	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	convey	past · passive	the Americas	Europe	the course of the Columbian Exchange	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to europe=Recipient

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

Cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Wheat and barley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 barley	cc
3	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wheat	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Maize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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