Exam question 3 · Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and o…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning Cahokia.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, Cahokia

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	Cahokia	Cahokia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	Cahokia		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cahokia=Experiencer

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

It was a substantial settlement of Mississippian people, of perhaps ten to twenty thousand inhabitants around eleven hundred

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 settlement	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 settlement	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 settlement	det
4	substantial	substantial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 settlement	amod
5	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	Mississippian	mississippian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 settlement	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inhabitants	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	16 inhabitants	case
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	15 thousand	advmod
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 thousand	compound
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 twenty	case
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 ten	nmod
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 inhabitants	nummod
16	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 settlement	appos
17	around	around	ADV	_	19 hundred	advmod
18	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 hundred	compound
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 inhabitants	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a substantial settlement				of Mississippian people	tree rules

Option 2

It was established by French settlers in the twentieth century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 established	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 established	aux:pass
3	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 settlers	case
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 settlers	amod
6	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 established	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 century	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 century	det
9	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 century	amod
10	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 established	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	establish	past · passive	French settlers	It			century		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

It was a temple complex in Cambodia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 complex	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 complex	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 complex	det
4	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 complex	compound
5	complex	complex	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Cambodia	case
7	Cambodia	Cambodia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 complex	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a temple complex		Cambodia			tree rules

Option 4

It was a Roman encampment of the first century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 encampment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 encampment	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 encampment	det
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 encampment	amod
5	encampment	encampment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 century	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 century	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 century	amod
9	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 encampment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a Roman encampment			century		tree rules

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