Exam question 1 · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms

Identify the river along which the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were situated.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» 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 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	along	along	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 cities	det
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cities	det
7	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 situated	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Harappa	case
9	Harappa	Harappa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cities	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Mohenjo	cc
11	Mohenjo	Mohenjo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Harappa	conj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 daro	punct
13	daro	daro	X	Foreign=Yes	11 Mohenjo	flat:foreign
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 situated	aux:pass
15	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
16	.	.	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 river					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent river=Theme
2	situate	past · passive		which cities of Harappa and Mohenjo					vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=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

The Indus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Indus	det
2	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Ganges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ganges	det
2	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Euphrates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Euphrates	det
2	Euphrates	Euphrate	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The Yangtze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Yangtze	det
2	Yangtze	Yangtze	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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