Exam question 1 · Slavery and its abolition

Ascertain the approximate number of Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, transport · To what, where: approximate number, Atlantic

This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Slavery and its abolition» 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	4 number	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 number	amod
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Africans	case
6	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 transported	obl
7	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	_	8 transported	advmod
8	transported	transport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 number	acl:relcl
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 Atlantic	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Atlantic	det
11	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 transported	obl
12	between	between	ADP	_	17 centuries	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 centuries	det
14	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 centuries	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nineteenth	cc
16	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sixteenth	conj
17	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 transported	obl
18	.	.	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 approximate number					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	transport	participle		the approximate number not said here		the Atlantic	century	of Africans; forcibly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

One billion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Twelve thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve million

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 million	compound
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

One hundred 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	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	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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