Exam question 3 · Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poo…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning extreme poverty.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, extreme poverty

This is exam question 3 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	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	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 poverty	amod
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	.	.	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	extreme poverty		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus poverty=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

It has never affected more than one person in a million

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	4 affected	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 affected	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 affected	advmod
4	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	7 one	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 person	nummod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 affected	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 million	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 million	det
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 affected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not affect	present · perfect · passive		It		a million			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer person=Result

Option 2

It has increased steadily since eighteen hundred and twenty

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 increased	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 increased	aux
3	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	3 increased	advmod
5	since	since	ADV	_	7 hundred	advmod
6	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 increased	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 twenty	cc
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present · perfect · passive		It				eighteen hundred obl; steadily property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It has declined from the majority of humanity circa eighteen hundred and twenty to approximately one person in ten

The tree, 19 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	3 declined	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 declined	aux
3	declined	decline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 majority	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 majority	det
6	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 declined	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 humanity	case
8	humanity	humanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 majority	nmod
9	circa	circa	ADV	_	11 hundred	advmod
10	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	compound
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 declined	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 twenty	cc
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 person	case
15	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 person	nummod
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 declined	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 ten	case
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 declined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	present · perfect · passive		It		the majority of humanity		to one person result; in ten; eighteen hundred obl	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent from majority=Initial_State to person=Result in ten=Attribute

Option 4

It has been entirely eliminated

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 eliminated	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eliminated	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 eliminated	aux:pass
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 eliminated	advmod
5	eliminated	eliminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eliminate	present · perfect · passive		It				entirely property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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