Exam question 4 · The Second World War
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the organisation founded in nineteen hundred and forty-five for the preservation of peace.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, found, preserve · To what, where: response, organisation, nineteen hundred, peace
This is exam question 4 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 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 response | det |
| 3 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Select | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 facts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 facts | det |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 facts | amod |
| 8 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consistent | obl |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 facts | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 organisation | det |
| 11 | organisation | organisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerning | obj |
| 12 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 organisation | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hundred | case |
| 14 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 founded | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 five | cc |
| 17 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 five | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 five | punct |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 preservation | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 preservation | det |
| 22 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 five | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 peace | case |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preservation | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the response | consistent property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | |||
| 2 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | the established facts not said here | the organisation | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus organisation=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | found | participle | the organisation not said here | nineteen hundred | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | preserve | peace | nom preservation «act 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 League of Nations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 League | det |
| 2 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Nations | case |
| 4 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 League | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The European Union
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Union | det |
| 2 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Union | compound |
| 3 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Hanseatic League
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 League | det |
| 2 | Hanseatic | Hanseatic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 League | compound |
| 3 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The United Nations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nations | det |
| 2 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 3 Nations | compound |
| 3 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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