Exam question 1 · What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music…

Identify the language which was revived as a language of everyday use at approximately the commencement of the twentieth century.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, revive · To what, where: language, commencement

This is exam question 1 of lesson 77 «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» 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 language	det
3	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 revived	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 revived	aux:pass
6	revived	revive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 language	acl:relcl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 language	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 language	det
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 revived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 use	case
11	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 use	amod
12	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 language	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 commencement	case
14	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	16 commencement	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 commencement	det
16	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 revived	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 century	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 century	det
19	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 century	amod
20	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 commencement	nmod
21	.	.	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 language					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent language=Theme
2	revive	past · passive		the language		the commencement of the twentieth century		as a language of everyday use	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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

Ancient Egyptian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Egyptian	amod
2	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Latin, in the city of Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 city	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 city	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Latin	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Rome	case
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 city	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hebrew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hebrew	hebrew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Sumerian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sumerian	sumerian	NOUN	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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