Exam question 3 · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

Select the historical figure of whom no photograph can exist.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, photograph · What happens: select, exist · To what, where: historical figure

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 figure	det
3	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 whom	case
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 figure	nmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 photograph	det
8	photograph	photograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exist	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 exist	aux
10	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 whom	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the historical figure					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	exist	can	no photograph						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Taras Shevchenko

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taras	Taras	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Shevchenko	flat
2	Shevchenko	Shevchenko	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Queen Victoria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Queen	flat

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

Option 3

President Abraham Lincoln

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	President	President	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Abraham	nmod:desc
2	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Lincoln	Lincoln	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Abraham	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Napoleon Bonaparte

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bonaparte	Bonaparte	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Napoleon	flat

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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