Exam question 1 · The Second World War

Identify the event which in September nineteen hundred and thirty-nine precipitated the Second World War.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, precipitate · To what, where: event, Second World War

This is exam question 1 of lesson 34 «The Second 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	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 September	case
6	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 which	nmod
7	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 September	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nine	cc
10	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 nine	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 thirty	punct
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	conj
13	precipitated	precipitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 nine	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 War	det
15	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 War	amod
16	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 War	compound
17	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 precipitated	obj
18	.	.	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 event					tree rules
2	precipitate	participle		the Second World War					tree rules

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

The landing in Normandy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The German invasion of Poland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 invasion	det
2	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 invasion	amod
3	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Poland	case
5	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 invasion	nmod

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

Option 4

The attack upon Pearl Harbor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 attack	det
2	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 Harbor	case
4	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Harbor	compound
5	Harbor	Harbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 attack	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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