Exam question 3 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

Select the response consistent with the estimates of the majority of demographers in respect of deaths during the Holodomor.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, estimate, respect · To what, where: response, majority, deaths

This is exam question 3 of lesson 46 «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» 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	_	7 estimates	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 estimates	det
7	estimates	estimate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 majority	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 majority	det
10	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 estimates	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 demographers	case
12	demographers	demographer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 majority	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 respect	case
14	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 demographers	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 deaths	case
16	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 respect	nmod
17	during	during	ADP	_	19 Holodomor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Holodomor	det
19	Holodomor	Holodomor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 deaths	nmod
20	.	.	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	estimate			the majority of demographers in respect of deaths during the Holodomor		nom estimate «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	respect			deaths during the Holodomor		nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Approximately ten thousand persons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 persons	nummod
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Precisely twenty million persons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 persons	nummod
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately three and a half to five million persons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	8 million	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 million	compound
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 half	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 half	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 three	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 five	case
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 three	nmod
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 persons	nummod
9	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

No deaths whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 deaths	det
2	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 deaths	advmod

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

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