Exam question 4 · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the first ascent of Mount Everest.

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, first ascent

This is exam question 4 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	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	12 ascent	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 ascent	amod
12	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Everest	case
14	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Everest	compound
15	Everest	Everest	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ascent	nmod
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 first ascent of Mount Everest		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ascent=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 accomplished by James Cook in seventeen hundred and seventy

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	3 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 James	case
5	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 accomplished	obl:agent
6	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 James	flat
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hundred	case
8	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	compound
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 accomplished	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seventy	cc
11	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · passive	James	It		seventeen hundred			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was accomplished by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in nineteen hundred and fifty-three

The tree, 15 words

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	3 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Edmund	case
5	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 accomplished	obl
6	Hillary	Hillary	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Edmund	flat
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Tenzing	cc
8	Tenzing	Tenzing	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Edmund	conj
9	Norgay	Norgay	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tenzing	flat
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hundred	case
11	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hundred	compound
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 accomplished	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 three	cc
14	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 three	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fifty	punct
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · passive	Edmund and Tenzing	It		nineteen hundred			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

Option 3

It has never been accomplished

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	5 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accomplished	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 accomplished	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 accomplished	aux:pass
5	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not accomplish	present · perfect · passive		It					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

It was accomplished by Edmund Hillary alone

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	3 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Edmund	case
5	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 accomplished	obl:agent
6	Hillary	Hillary	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Edmund	flat
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 accomplished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · passive	Edmund	It				alone property	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

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