Exam question 2 · Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs
Identify the artefact, discovered in 1799, whereby the decipherment of hieroglyphs was rendered possible.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, discover, render, decipher · To what, where: artefact, 1799, decipherment, hieroglyphs
This is exam question 2 of lesson 6 «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 artefact | det |
| 3 | artefact | artefact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 discovered | punct |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 artefact | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1799 | case |
| 7 | 1799 | 1799 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 discovered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rendered | punct |
| 9 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 rendered | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 decipherment | det |
| 11 | decipherment | decipherment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hieroglyphs | case |
| 13 | hieroglyphs | hieroglyph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 decipherment | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rendered | aux:pass |
| 15 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 artefact | acl |
| 16 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rendered | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the artefact | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent artefact=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | participle | the artefact not said here | 1799 | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | render | past · passive | the decipherment of hieroglyphs | possible, whereby property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | decipher | hieroglyphs | nom decipherment «act 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 Diamond Sutra of China
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sutra | det |
| 2 | Diamond | Diamond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sutra | compound |
| 3 | Sutra | Sutra | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 China | case |
| 5 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sutra | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Code of Hammurabi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Code | det |
| 2 | Code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Hammurabi | case |
| 4 | Hammurabi | Hammurabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Code | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | code | Hammurabi | nom code «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Rosetta Stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Stone | det |
| 2 | Rosetta | Rosetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Stone | compound |
| 3 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Terracotta Army
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Army | det |
| 2 | Terracotta | Terracotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Army | compound |
| 3 | Army | Army | PROPN | 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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