Exam question 1 · Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poo…

Identify the date upon which, according to the United Nations, the population of the world attained eight billion persons.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, United Nations · What happens: identify, accord, attain · To what, where: date, billion persons

This is exam question 1 of lesson 78 «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich» 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 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 attained	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Nations	punct
7	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 Nations	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 according	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Nations	det
10	United	United	PROPN	_	11 Nations	compound
11	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 attained	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 population	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 population	det
14	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 attained	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 population	nmod
18	attained	attain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 date	acl:relcl
19	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 billion	compound
20	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 persons	nummod
21	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 attained	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the date		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	attain	past	the United Nations	billion persons	upon the date	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme

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 first of January, nineteen hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hundred	punct
6	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 first	acl

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

Option 2

The first of January, two thousand and fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thousand	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 first	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fifty	cc
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The fifteenth of November, two thousand and twenty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fifteenth	det
2	fifteenth	fifteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 November	case
4	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fifteenth	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thousand	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fifteenth	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 two	cc
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 two	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 twenty	punct
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	conj

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

Option 4

The fifteenth of November, in the year nineteen hundred and fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fifteenth	det
2	fifteenth	fifteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 November	case
4	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fifteenth	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fifteenth	appos
9	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hundred	compound
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 year	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fifty	cc
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hundred	conj

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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