Exam question 4 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline
Ascertain the approximate population of the world at the commencement of agriculture.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: approximate population, commencement
This is exam question 4 of lesson 61 «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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 population | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 population | amod |
| 4 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 population | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 commencement | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 commencement | det |
| 10 | commencement | commencement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 agriculture | case |
| 12 | agriculture | agriculture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 commencement | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | 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 approximate population of the world | the commencement of agriculture | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=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 · ✓ the right answer
A few million persons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 persons | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 persons | amod |
| 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 2
Approximately eight billion persons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 billion | advmod |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 billion | compound |
| 3 | billion | billion | 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
Approximately fifty persons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 fifty | advmod |
| 2 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 persons | nummod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Approximately one billion persons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 billion | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 billion | compound |
| 3 | billion | billion | 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.
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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