Exam question 1 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes

Identify the substance traded over long distances more than ten thousand years ago, prior to the emergence of cities.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, substance, cities · What happens: identify, trade, emerge · To what, where: long distances

This is exam question 1 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 traded	nsubj
4	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	over	over	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 distances	amod
7	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 traded	obj
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	11 thousand	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 more	fixed
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ago	obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 traded	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct
15	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 emergence	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 prior	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 emergence	det
18	emergence	emergence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 cities	case
20	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 emergence	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		prior the emergence of cities	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	trade	past	the substance	long distances	ago property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme
3	emerge		cities			nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=agent

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

Paper money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 money	compound
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Obsidian, a volcanic glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Obsidian	Obsidian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 glass	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glass	det
4	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glass	amod
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Obsidian	appos

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

Option 3

Plastic goods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goods	compound
2	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root

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

Option 4

Porcelain from China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 China	case
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Porcelain	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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