Exam question 4 · Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★

Ascertain the source of the cholera outbreak identified by John Snow in 1854.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, identify · To what, where: source, cholera outbreak, 1854

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 source	det
3	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 outbreak	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 outbreak	det
6	cholera	cholera	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outbreak	compound
7	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 source	nmod
8	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 outbreak	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 John	case
10	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 identified	obl:agent
11	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 John	flat
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1854	case
13	1854	1854	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 identified	obl
14	.	.	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 source of the cholera outbreak					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Topic
2	identify	participle		the cholera outbreak not said here		1854			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Bad smells in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smells	amod
2	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 air	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	nmod

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

Option 2

Rats on the ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 ships	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ships	det
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rats	nmod

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

Option 3

Cold winter weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weather	amod
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weather	compound
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One water pump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pump	nummod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pump	compound
3	pump	pump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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