Exam question 2 · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

Identify the instrument which Christopher Columbus could genuinely have employed in 1492.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ · To what, where: instrument, Christopher, 1492

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 instrument	det
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 employed	obj
5	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 employed	nsubj:pass
6	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Christopher	flat
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 employed	aux
8	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	_	10 employed	advmod
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 employed	aux
10	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 instrument	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1492	case
12	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 employed	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 instrument					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme
2	employ	could · perfect · passive		Christopher		1492		genuinely property	tree rules

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 right answer

A magnetic compass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 compass	det
2	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 compass	amod
3	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A camera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 camera	det
2	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A wristwatch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wristwatch	det
2	wristwatch	wristwatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

An astronomical telescope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 telescope	det
2	astronomical	astronomical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 telescope	amod
3	telescope	telescope	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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