Exam question 1 · Canada: a short story
Identify the event commemorated annually upon the first day of July in Canada.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, event · What happens: identify, commemorate
This is exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Canada: 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 event | det |
| 3 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 commemorated | nsubj |
| 4 | commemorated | commemorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | ccomp |
| 5 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 4 commemorated | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 commemorated | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 July | case |
| 11 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Canada | case |
| 13 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 July | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | commemorate | past | the event | day | annually property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 adoption of the maple leaf flag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 adoption | det |
| 2 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flag | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flag | det |
| 5 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaf | compound |
| 6 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flag | compound |
| 7 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 adoption | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | the leaf flag | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Confederation of 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 Confederation | det |
| 2 | Confederation | confederation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hundred | case |
| 4 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Confederation | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seven | cc |
| 7 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 seven | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sixty | punct |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Battle | det |
| 2 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Plains | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Plains | det |
| 5 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Battle | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Abraham | case |
| 7 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Plains | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The founding of Québec in sixteen hundred and eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 founding | det |
| 2 | founding | founding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Québec | case |
| 4 | Québec | Québec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 founding | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 hundred | advmod |
| 6 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 founding | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eight | cc |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | Québec | nom founding «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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