Exam question 1 · From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires a…
Identify the approximate date at which Egypt was united as a single kingdom.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, unite · To what, where: approximate date, Egypt
This is exam question 1 of lesson 66 «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 | 4 date | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 date | amod |
| 4 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 united | obl |
| 7 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 united | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 united | aux:pass |
| 9 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 date | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kingdom | amod |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 united | obl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 approximate date | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme | ||||
| 2 | unite | past · passive | Egypt | the approximate date | as a single kingdom | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
Circa nineteen forty-five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circa | Circa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Circa | flat |
| 3 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Circa | list |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 five | punct |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 forty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Circa five hundred CE
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circa | Circa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Circa | flat |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 CE | nummod |
| 4 | CE | ce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Circa | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Circa three thousand one hundred BCE
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circa | Circa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thousand | compound |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Circa | appos |
| 6 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Circa | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Circa eighteen sixty-one of the common era
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circa | Circa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Circa | flat |
| 3 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Circa | list |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sixty | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 era | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 era | det |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 era | amod |
| 9 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
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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