Exam question 2 · The Second World War

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Holocaust?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: Holocaust

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Holocaust	det
10	Holocaust	Holocaust	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the Holocaust				of the following statements; accurately property	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 · ← Mova's choice

A naval engagement in the Pacific Ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 engagement	det
2	naval	naval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 engagement	amod
3	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 Ocean	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ocean	det
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Ocean	compound
7	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 engagement	nmod

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

Option 2

An economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crisis	det
2	economic	economic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crisis	amod
3	crisis	crisis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 thirties	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thirties	det
6	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thirties	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 nineteen	punct
8	thirties	thirty	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crisis	nmod

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

Option 3

The evacuation of British children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 evacuation	det
2	evacuation	evacuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evacuation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	evacuate			British children					nom evacuation «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The murder by the Nazi regime of approximately six million Jews and many others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 murder	det
2	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 regime	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 regime	det
5	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 regime	compound
6	regime	regime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 murder	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 Jews	case
8	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	10 million	advmod
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 million	compound
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 Jews	nummod
11	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 regime	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 others	cc
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 others	amod
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 murder	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	murder		the Nazi regime of million Jews						nom murder «act transitive»: by=agent

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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