Exam question 4 · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

Determine which foodstuff could not have been eaten in ancient Rome.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, not eat · To what, where: foodstuff, ancient Rome

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 foodstuff	det
3	foodstuff	foodstuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 eaten	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 eaten	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Rome	case
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Rome	amod
11	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not eat	could · perfect · passive		which foodstuff		ancient Rome			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Olives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The potato

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 potato	det
2	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Grapes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Wheat bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bread	compound
2	bread	bread	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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