Exam question 3 · The Second World War

Ascertain the date upon which Allied forces landed upon the beaches of Normandy.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, date, forces · What happens: ascertain, ally, land · To what, where: date

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Allied	nsubj
6	Allied	ally	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 date	acl:relcl
7	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 landed	nsubj
8	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Allied	ccomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 beaches	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beaches	det
11	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 landed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Normandy	case
13	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 beaches	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the date		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	ally	past	the date			vn conspire-71 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	land	past	forces		upon the beaches of Normandy	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 fourth of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fourth	det
2	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 July	case
4	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fourth	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hundred	punct
6	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fourth	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 six	cc
9	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 six	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 seventy	punct
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj

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

Option 2

The first of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 September	case
4	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hundred	punct
6	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 first	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nine	cc
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nine	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 thirty	punct
11	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj

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

Option 3

The eleventh of November, nineteen hundred and eighteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eleventh	det
2	eleventh	eleventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 November	case
4	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eleventh	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hundred	punct
6	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 eleventh	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eighteen	cc
9	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The sixth of June, nineteen hundred and forty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sixth	det
2	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 June	case
4	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sixth	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hundred	punct
6	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sixth	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 forty	cc
9	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 four	punct
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj

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

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