Exam question 1 · Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and o…

Identify the city which a report of the United Nations published in two thousand and twenty-five ranked as the most populous.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, report · What happens: identify, publish, rank, report · To what, where: city, United Nations

This is exam question 1 of lesson 74 «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» 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 city	det
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 published	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 report	det
6	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 published	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Nations	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Nations	det
9	United	United	PROPN	_	10 Nations	compound
10	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 report	nmod
11	published	publish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 city	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADV	_	14 thousand	advmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thousand	compound
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 published	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 five	cc
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 five	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 twenty	punct
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thousand	nmod
19	ranked	rank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 five	acl
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 populous	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 populous	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 populous	advmod
23	populous	populace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ranked	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the city		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent city=Theme
2	publish	past	a report of the United Nations	the city		tree rules
3	rank	participle			as the populous	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as populace=Attribute
4	report			the United Nations		nom report «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 · ← Mova's choice

Canberra, Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Australia	punct
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Canberra	conj

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

Option 2

London, England

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 England	punct
3	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 London	conj

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

Option 3

Rome, Italy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Italy	punct
3	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Rome	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Jakarta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jakarta	Jakarta	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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