Exam question 4 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs

Ascertain the duration of the reign of Ramesses II.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: duration

This is exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 reign	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reign	det
6	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duration	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ramesses	case
8	Ramesses	Ramesses	PROPN	_	6 reign	nmod
9	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	8 Ramesses	flat
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the duration of the reign of Ramesses					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic

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

Six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sixty-six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Sixty	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

One hundred and sixty-six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sixty	cc
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Nineteen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	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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