Exam question 1 · Learning through the ages: schools, universities, librarie…

Identify the person credited with the foundation of Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez in the year 859.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, credit · To what, where: person

This is exam question 1 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	credited	credit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 person	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 foundation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foundation	det
7	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 credited	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Al	case
9	Al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 foundation	nmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Qarawiyyin	punct
11	Qarawiyyin	Qarawiyyin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Al	flat
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Fez	case
13	Fez	Fez	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Al	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 year	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 credited	obl
17	859	859	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 year	flat
18	.	.	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 person					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	credit	participle		the person not said here			year	with the foundation of Al in Fez	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foundation=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 · ✓ the right answer

Fatima al-Fihri

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fatima	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Fihri	punct
4	Fihri	Fihri	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fatima	flat

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

Option 2

Andrew Carnegie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Carnegie	Carnegie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Andrew	flat

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

Option 3

Denis Diderot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Diderot	Diderot	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Denis	flat

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

Option 4

Ibn al-Haytham

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ibn	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Haytham	punct
4	Haytham	Haytham	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ibn	flat

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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