Exam question 1 · Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★

Identify the principal purpose for which writing was first developed in Sumer.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, develop · To what, where: principal purpose, writing, Sumer

This is exam question 1 of lesson 86 «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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	4 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 developed	obl
7	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 developed	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 developed	aux:pass
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 developed	advmod
10	developed	develop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 purpose	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Sumer	case
12	Sumer	Sumer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 developed	obl
13	.	.	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 principal purpose					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	develop	past · passive		writing		Sumer		for the principal purpose; first property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for which=Beneficiary

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 sending of letters abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sending	det
2	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 letters	case
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sending	obl
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	2 sending	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund						of letters; abroad property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of letter=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Records of goods and taxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 goods	case
3	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 Records	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 taxes	cc
5	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Records	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record			goods					nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The composition of poetry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 composition	det
2	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 poetry	case
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 composition	nmod

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

Option 4

The recording of games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 recording	det
2	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 games	case
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recording	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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