Exam question 1 · Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, stea…
Identify the period designated as the Edwardian age.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, designate · To what, where: period
This is exam question 1 of lesson 83 «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» 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 period | det |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 period | acl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 age | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 age | det |
| 7 | Edwardian | edwardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 age | amod |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 designated | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the period | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent period=Theme | ||||
| 2 | designate | participle | the period not said here | as the Edwardian age | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as age=Attribute |
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
The reign of King Edward VII, from 1901 to 1910
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reign | det |
| 2 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 VII | case |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 VII | compound |
| 5 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 VII | compound |
| 6 | VII | VII | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reign | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 1901 | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 1901 | case |
| 9 | 1901 | 1901 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 reign | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 1910 | case |
| 11 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 1901 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The period after the Second World War, from 1945
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 War | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 War | det |
| 5 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 War | amod |
| 6 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 War | compound |
| 7 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 period | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 1945 | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 1945 | case |
| 10 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 period | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reign | det |
| 2 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Queen | case |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reign | nmod |
| 5 | Victoria | Victoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Queen | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1837 | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 1837 | case |
| 8 | 1837 | 1837 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 reign | appos |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 1901 | case |
| 10 | 1901 | 1901 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 1837 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The years of the Norman Conquest of England
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 years | det |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Conquest | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Conquest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Conquest | det |
| 5 | Norman | Norman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Conquest | compound |
| 6 | Conquest | Conquest | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 England | case |
| 8 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Conquest | nmod |
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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