Exam question 1 · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★
Define the term «anachronism».
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: define · To what, where: term
This is exam question 1 of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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 | Define | define | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Define | obj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 anachronism | punct |
| 5 | anachronism | anachronism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | appos |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 anachronism | punct |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Define | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | define | imperative | you not said here | the term | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=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
A calendar error of a single year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 error | det |
| 2 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 error | compound |
| 3 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 error | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | err | a single year | nom error «act intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Something placed in a period to which it does not belong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Something | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 period | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 period | det |
| 5 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 belong | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belong | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 belong | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 belong | advmod |
| 11 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 period | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | participle | a period | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in period=Destination | |||||
| 2 | not belong | present · do-support | period | to a period | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
An account wholly free from error
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 account | det |
| 2 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 free | nsubj |
| 3 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 4 free | advmod |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 error | case |
| 6 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 free | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
An exceptionally ancient artefact
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 artefact | det |
| 2 | exceptionally | exceptionally | ADV | _ | 3 ancient | advmod |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 artefact | amod |
| 4 | artefact | artefact | 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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