Exam question 1 · Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers

Identify the ruler who, subsequent to the conquest of Kalinga, caused edicts enjoining kindness and religious tolerance to be inscribed upon pillars.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, edicts · What happens: identify, cause, enjoin, inscribe · To what, where: ruler, edicts, kindness, pillars

This is exam question 1 of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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 ruler	det
3	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 subsequent	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 subsequent	punct
6	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ruler	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 conquest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 conquest	det
9	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 subsequent	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Kalinga	case
11	Kalinga	Kalinga	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conquest	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caused	punct
13	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
14	edicts	edict	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 caused	obj
15	enjoining	enjoin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 edicts	acl
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enjoining	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tolerance	cc
18	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tolerance	amod
19	tolerance	tolerance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kindness	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 inscribed	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 inscribed	aux:pass
22	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 enjoining	advcl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 pillars	case
24	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 inscribed	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the ruler		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ruler=Theme
2	cause	past		edicts		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition edict=Patient
3	enjoin	gerund	edicts not said here	kindness and religious tolerance		tree rules
4	inscribe	to-infinitive · passive	edicts not said here		pillars	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: upon pillar=Destination

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

Cyrus the Great

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Great	det
3	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cyrus	amod

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

Option 2

Aryabhata

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Chandragupta Maurya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chandragupta	Chandragupta	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Maurya	Maurya	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Chandragupta	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ashoka

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ashoka	Ashoka	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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