Exam question 2 · Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the visibility of the Great Wall from the Moon.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, visibility, Moon

This is exam question 2 of lesson 9 «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» 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	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 visibility	det
11	visibility	visibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Wall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Wall	det
14	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Wall	amod
15	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 visibility	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 Moon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Moon	det
18	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the visibility of the Great Wall	the Moon		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus visibility=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

It is visible solely in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 visible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 visible	cop
3	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 visible	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				winter	solely, visible property	tree rules

Option 2

It is visible solely at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 visible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 visible	cop
3	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 visible	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				night	solely, visible property	tree rules

Option 3

It is plainly visible at all times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 visible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 visible	cop
3	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	4 visible	advmod
4	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 times	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 times	det
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 visible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				time	plainly, visible property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is not visible to the unaided eye, being too narrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 visible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 visible	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 visible	advmod
4	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
7	unaided	unaided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	amod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visible	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 narrow	punct
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 narrow	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 narrow	advmod
12	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 visible	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					to the unaided eye; visible property	tree rules
2	is	gerund						narrow property	tree rules

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