Exam question 3 · Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin

State the meaning of the abbreviation "p.m." pursuant to its Latin origin.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, mean · To what, where: meaning, abbreviation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 23 «Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin» 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	State	state	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 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 abbreviation	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 abbreviation	det
6	abbreviation	abbreviation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 p.m.	punct
8	p.m.	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 abbreviation	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 p.m.	punct
10	pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	14 origin	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 origin	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 origin	nmod:poss
13	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 origin	amod
14	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 abbreviation	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the abbreviation to p.m.'s Latin origin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	mean			the abbreviation to p.m.'s Latin origin					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 · ✓ the right answer

After midday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	2 midday	case
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

After midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Before midday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	2 midday	case
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Past morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	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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