Exam question 4 · Britain and Ireland: a short story

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, reign

This is exam question 4 of lesson 37 «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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 reign	det
11	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Elizabeth	case
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Elizabeth	nmod:desc
14	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 reign	nmod
15	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	14 Elizabeth	flat
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 reign of Elizabeth Queen		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reign=Experiencer

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

It was the briefest of any British monarch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 briefest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 briefest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 briefest	det
4	briefest	brief	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 monarch	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 monarch	det
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 monarch	amod
8	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 briefest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					of any British monarch; brief property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It endured for seventy years, the longest of any British monarch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 endured	nsubj
2	endured	endure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 endured	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 longest	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 longest	det
8	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 endured	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 monarch	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 monarch	det
11	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 monarch	amod
12	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 longest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endure	past	It				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It endured for forty-five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 endured	nsubj
2	endured	endure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 five	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 forty	punct
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 endured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endure	past	It				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It concluded in nineteen hundred and fifty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 concluded	nsubj
2	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hundred	case
4	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 concluded	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 two	cc
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 two	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fifty	punct
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conclude	past	It			nineteen hundred			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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