Exam question 1 · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

Identify the minimum duration for which Aboriginal peoples are known to have inhabited Australia.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, know, inhabit · To what, where: minimum duration, Aboriginal peoples, Australia

This is exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: 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	4 duration	det
3	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duration	amod
4	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 known	obl
7	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 peoples	amod
8	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 known	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 known	aux:pass
10	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 duration	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	13 inhabited	mark
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 inhabited	aux
13	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 known	xcomp
14	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 inhabited	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the minimum duration		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent duration=Theme
2	know	present · passive		Aboriginal peoples	for the minimum duration	tree rules
3	inhabit	to-infinitive · perfect		Australia		tree rules

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

Fifty thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Five hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Five thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Two hundred and fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	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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