Exam question 4 · China: the Song and the Mongols

Ascertain the original signification of the Japanese term kamikaze.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, signify · To what, where: original signification, Japanese term kamikaze

This is exam question 4 of lesson 55 «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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	4 signification	det
3	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signification	amod
4	signification	signification	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 kamikaze	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kamikaze	det
7	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kamikaze	amod
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kamikaze	compound
9	kamikaze	kamikaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signification	nmod
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 original signification of the Japanese term kamikaze					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signification=Topic
2	signify			the Japanese term kamikaze					nom signification «communication 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

The rising sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Imperial fleet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fleet	amod
2	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Brave warrior

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 warrior	amod
2	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Divine wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wind	amod
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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