Exam question 4 · Slang and how it changes with every generation

Ascertain the meaning of the word "nice" in Middle English.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, mean · To what, where: meaning, word

This is exam question 4 of lesson 17 «Slang and how it changes with every generation» of the language 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 nice	punct
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 nice	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 English	case
11	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 English	compound
12	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nice	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the word					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	mean			the word					nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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

Pleasant and agreeable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 agreeable	cc
3	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pleasant	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Of considerable expense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Of	of	ADP	_	3 expense	case
2	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 expense	amod
3	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Of exceptionally low temperature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Of	of	ADP	_	4 temperature	case
2	exceptionally	exceptionally	ADV	_	3 low	advmod
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 temperature	amod
4	temperature	temperature	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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