Exam question 4 · Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rig…
Ascertain the lesson most accurately drawn from the ending of German democracy in 1933.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, draw, end · To what, where: lesson, German democracy
This is exam question 4 of lesson 69 «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» 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 | 3 lesson | det |
| 3 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 accurately | advmod |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 drawn | advmod |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lesson | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ending | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ending | det |
| 9 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 democracy | case |
| 11 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 democracy | amod |
| 12 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ending | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1933 | case |
| 14 | 1933 | 1933 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 democracy | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | 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 lesson | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | the lesson not said here | from the ending of German democracy in 1933; accurately property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from ending=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | end | German democracy in 1933 | nom ending «communication 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
Rights are guaranteed in perpetuity
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 guaranteed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 guaranteed | aux:pass |
| 3 | guaranteed | guarantee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 perpetuity | case |
| 5 | perpetuity | perpetuity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guaranteed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guarantee | present · passive | Rights | perpetuity | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Democracies cannot ever end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Democracies | democracy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 end | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 end | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 end | advmod |
| 5 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not end | can | Democracies | ever | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Elections are invariably unnecessary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 unnecessary | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unnecessary | cop |
| 3 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 4 unnecessary | advmod |
| 4 | unnecessary | unnecessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Elections | invariably, unnecessary property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Rights and democratic institutions may be lost unless protected
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 institutions | cc |
| 3 | democratic | democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 institutions | amod |
| 4 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rights | conj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lost | aux:pass |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 9 protected | mark |
| 9 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lost | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | may · passive | Rights and democratic institutions | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | protect a condition, not said to happen | participle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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