Exam question 3 · The United States: a short story

Ascertain the date upon which the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, adopt · To what, where: date, Declaration

This is exam question 3 of lesson 38 «The United States: 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	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	11 adopted	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Declaration	det
7	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 adopted	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Independence	case
9	Independence	Independence	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Declaration	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 adopted	aux:pass
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 date	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the date					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	adopt	past · passive		the Declaration of Independence				upon the date	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 right answer

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 twenty-fifth of December, sixteen hundred and twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The fourth of July, eighteen 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	eighteen	eighteen	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 4

The first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven

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 July	case
4	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hundred	punct
6	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 first	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seven	cc
9	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 seven	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sixty	punct
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj

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

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