Exam question 3 · Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★
Determine the immediate occasion, as distinct from the deeper causes, of the First World War.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine · To what, where: immediate occasion
This is exam question 3 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 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 occasion | det |
| 3 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 occasion | amod |
| 4 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 distinct | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 distinct | case |
| 7 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Determine | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 causes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 causes | det |
| 10 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 causes | amod |
| 11 | causes | cause | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 distinct | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 War | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 War | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 War | det |
| 15 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 War | amod |
| 16 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 War | compound |
| 17 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the immediate occasion | of the First World War | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Topic |
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 landing at Gallipoli in 1915
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 landing | det |
| 2 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Gallipoli | case |
| 4 | Gallipoli | Gallipoli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 landing | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1915 | case |
| 6 | 1915 | 1915 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 landing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The rivalry of two great alliances
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rivalry | det |
| 2 | rivalry | rivalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 alliances | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 alliances | nummod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 alliances | amod |
| 6 | alliances | alliance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rivalry | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rival | two great alliances | nom rivalry «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The shooting of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shooting | det |
| 2 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ferdinand | case |
| 4 | Franz | Franz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ferdinand | flat |
| 5 | Ferdinand | Ferdinand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shooting | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Sarajevo | case |
| 7 | Sarajevo | Sarajevo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ferdinand | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo | nom shooting «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
The Christmas truce of 1914
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truce | det |
| 2 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 truce | compound |
| 3 | truce | truce | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 1914 | case |
| 5 | 1914 | 1914 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 truce | 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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