Exam question 2 · Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies
Identify the assembly that convened from the year 930 and is accounted among the oldest of its kind.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, assembly · What happens: identify, convene, account · To what, where: assembly
This is exam question 2 of lesson 67 «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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 assembly | det |
| 3 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 convened | nsubj |
| 5 | convened | convene | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assembly | acl:relcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 convened | obl |
| 9 | 930 | 930 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 year | flat |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 accounted | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 accounted | aux:pass |
| 12 | accounted | account | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 convened | conj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 oldest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oldest | det |
| 15 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 accounted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 kind | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 oldest | obl |
| 19 | . | . | 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 assembly | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent assembly=Theme | ||||
| 2 | convene | past | the assembly | year | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | account | present · passive | the assembly not said here | among the oldest | tree rules |
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 Parliament of England
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Parliament | det |
| 2 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Parliament | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Diet of Japan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Diet | det |
| 2 | Diet | diet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Japan | case |
| 4 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Diet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Althing of Iceland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Althing | det |
| 2 | Althing | Althing | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Iceland | case |
| 4 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Althing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Senate of the United States
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Senate | det |
| 2 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 States | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 States | det |
| 5 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 States | amod |
| 6 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Senate | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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