Exam question 3 · Chornobyl and independence in 1991

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the immediate fatalities resulting from the Chornobyl accident of nineteen hundred and eighty-six.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, immediate fatalities · What happens: select, establish, concern, result · To what, where: response, immediate fatalities, Chornobyl accident

This is exam question 3 of lesson 48 «Chornobyl and independence in 1991» 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 fatalities	det
11	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fatalities	amod
12	fatalities	fatality	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
13	resulting	result	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fatalities	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 accident	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 accident	det
16	Chornobyl	Chornobyl	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 accident	compound
17	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 resulting	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hundred	case
19	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hundred	compound
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 accident	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 six	cc
22	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 six	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 eighty	punct
24	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hundred	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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 immediate fatalities			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fatality=Experiencer
4	result	gerund	the immediate fatalities not said here		the Chornobyl accident of nineteen hundred		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Several million persons died within the first week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 million	amod
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 persons	nummod
3	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	within	within	ADP	_	8 week	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 week	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	million persons				week		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately thirty-one persons died within the first months, while long-term fatalities remain debated

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 one	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 thirty	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 persons	nummod
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	within	within	ADP	_	10 months	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 months	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 months	amod
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remain	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 remain	mark
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 term	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
15	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fatalities	compound
16	fatalities	fatality	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 remain	nsubj
17	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 died	conj
18	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 remain	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	die	past	one persons	month	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	remain	present	term fatalities		tree rules
3	debate	participle	term fatalities not said here		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No person sustained any harm whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sustained	nsubj
3	sustained	sustain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 harm	det
5	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sustained	obj
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 sustained	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sustain	past	no person	any harm				whatsoever property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent harm=Theme

Option 4

Precisely one hundred thousand persons died upon the first day, and none thereafter from any illness

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	4 thousand	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thousand	compound
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 persons	nummod
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 none	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 none	cc
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 died	obl
14	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	17 illness	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 illness	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 illness	det
17	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 none	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	thousand persons	none			day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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