Exam question 2 · What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the survival of books from Mexico and Central America produced prior to the Spanish conquest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: survival · What happens: follow, characteris, produce, survive · To what, where: books

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 survival	det
10	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 produced	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 books	case
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 survival	nmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Mexico	case
14	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 books	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 America	cc
16	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 America	flat
17	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Mexico	conj
18	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 characterises	ccomp
19	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 produced	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 conquest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 conquest	det
22	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 conquest	amod
23	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 produced	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present			of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	produce	past	the survival of books from Mexico and Central America		to the Spanish conquest; prior property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	survive			books from Mexico and Central America		nom survival «state 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 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer than twenty survive, many having been burned or lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 twenty	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Fewer	fixed
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 survive	nsubj
4	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 burned	punct
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 burned	nsubj:pass
7	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 burned	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 burned	aux:pass
9	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 survive	advcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 burned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	survive	present	twenty		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	gerund · perfect · passive		many	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

All survive in the British Museum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 survive	advmod
2	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 Museum	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Museum	det
5	British	British	PROPN	_	6 Museum	compound
6	Museum	Museum	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 survive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present				the British Museum			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in museum=Location

Option 3

Several thousand survive intact in the libraries of Mexico City

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thousand	amod
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 survive	nsubj
3	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	intact	intact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 survive	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 libraries	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 libraries	det
7	libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 survive	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 City	case
9	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 City	compound
10	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 libraries	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present	Several thousand			the libraries of Mexico City		intact property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in library=Location

Option 4

None were ever produced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 produced	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 produced	aux:pass
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 produced	advmod
4	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	past · passive		None			ever		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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