Exam question 1 · The First World War

Identify the event commonly regarded as the immediate occasion of the First World War.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, regard, occasion · To what, where: event, First World War

This is exam question 1 of lesson 33 «The First World War» 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 event	det
3	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	5 regarded	advmod
5	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 event	acl
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 occasion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 occasion	det
8	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 occasion	amod
9	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 regarded	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 War	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 War	det
12	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 War	amod
13	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 War	compound
14	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 occasion	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the event		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme
2	regard	participle		the event not said here	as the immediate occasion of the First World War; commonly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as occasion=Value
3	occasion			the First World War		nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 assassination	det
2	assassination	assassination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ferdinand	case
4	Archduke	Archduke	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ferdinand	compound
5	Franz	Franz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ferdinand	flat
6	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 assassination	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Sarajevo	case
8	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ferdinand	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assassinate			Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo					nom assassination «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The sinking of the Titanic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sinking	det
2	sinking	sinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Titanic	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Titanic	det
5	Titanic	Titanic	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sinking	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink		the Titanic						nom sinking «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The invasion of Poland by the armies of Germany and Russia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 invasion	det
2	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Poland	case
4	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 invasion	nmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 armies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 armies	det
7	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 invasion	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Germany	case
9	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 armies	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Russia	cc
11	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Germany	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invade		the armies of Germany and Russia	Poland					nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent

Option 4

The fall of Constantinople

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fall	det
2	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Constantinople	case
4	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fall	nmod

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

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