Exam question 1 · Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news

Identify the region from which the digits now employed in arithmetic originated.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ, originate · To what, where: region, digits, arithmetic

This is exam question 1 of lesson 75 «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 employed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 digits	det
7	digits	digit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 employed	nsubj:pass
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 employed	advmod
9	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 region	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 arithmetic	case
11	arithmetic	arithmetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 employed	obl
12	originated	originate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 arithmetic	acl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the region				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent region=Theme
2	employ	participle · passive		the digits	the region	now	in arithmetic	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	originate	participle		arithmetic not said here				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Ancient Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Egypt	amod
2	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Ancient Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Rome	amod
2	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

England

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	England	England	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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