Exam question 4 · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★
Ascertain whether Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the building of the Great Pyramid or to the first Moon landing.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Cleopatra · What happens: ascertain, live
This is exam question 4 of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 4 lived | mark |
| 3 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ascertain | advcl |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 lived | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 building | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 building | det |
| 10 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Pyramid | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pyramid | det |
| 13 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Pyramid | amod |
| 14 | Pyramid | Pyramid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 building | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 landing | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 landing | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 landing | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 landing | amod |
| 19 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 landing | compound |
| 20 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Pyramid | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live | past | Cleopatra | time | near property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
Exactly halfway between the two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 halfway | advmod |
| 2 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 two | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 halfway | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nearer to the Moon landing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 landing | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 landing | det |
| 4 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 landing | compound |
| 5 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nearer | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
At the very time of the builders
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 builders | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 builders | det |
| 7 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 time | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nearer to the Great Pyramid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Pyramid | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Pyramid | det |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Pyramid | amod |
| 5 | Pyramid | Pyramid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nearer | obl |
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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