Exam question 4 · Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers
Ascertain the name of the early Indian game from which modern chess is descended.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, descend, name · To what, where: name, modern chess, early Indian game
This is exam question 4 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 game | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 game | det |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 game | amod |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 game | amod |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 descended | obl |
| 11 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chess | amod |
| 12 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 descended | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 descended | aux:pass |
| 14 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 game | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the name of the early Indian game | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 2 | descend | present · passive | modern chess | the early Indian game | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | the early Indian game | nom name «communication 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
Go
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Senet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Senet | Senet | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Mancala
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mancala | Mancala | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Chaturanga
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chaturanga | Chaturanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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