Exam question 1 · The Industrial Revolution

Identify the nation in which the Industrial Revolution commenced, circa seventeen hundred and sixty.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Industrial Revolution · What happens: identify, commence · To what, where: nation, seventeen hundred

This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» 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 nation	det
3	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 commenced	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Revolution	det
7	Industrial	industrial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Revolution	amod
8	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 commenced	nsubj
9	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nation	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hundred	punct
11	circa	circa	ADV	_	13 hundred	advmod
12	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 commenced	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sixty	cc
15	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	conj
16	.	.	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 nation					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nation=Theme
2	commence	past	the Industrial Revolution	seventeen hundred		the nation			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Great Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Britain	amod
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

France

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The United States

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 States	det
2	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 States	amod
3	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	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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