Exam question 2 · The First World War
Ascertain the precise moment at which hostilities ceased in nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hostilities · What happens: ascertain, cease · To what, where: nineteen hundred
This is exam question 2 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 ceased | obl |
| 7 | hostilities | hostility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ceased | nsubj |
| 8 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moment | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hundred | case |
| 10 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ceased | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eighteen | cc |
| 13 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | moment | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cease | past | hostilities | nineteen hundred | at the precise moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «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
Midnight upon the first day of January
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midnight | midnight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Midnight | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 January | case |
| 7 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Noon upon Christmas Day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 Day | case |
| 3 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Day | compound |
| 4 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Noon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 2 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 hour | amod |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hour | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 month | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 month | det |
| 10 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 month | amod |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The sixth hour of the sixth day of June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 2 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hour | amod |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hour | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 June | case |
| 9 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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