Exam question 2 · Explorers, scientists and inventors

Identify the individual to whom the discovery of radioactivity in the year 1896 is properly attributed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, attribute, discover · To what, where: individual, discovery, radioactivity

This is exam question 2 of lesson 20 «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 individual	det
3	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 discovery	det
7	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attributed	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 radioactivity	case
9	radioactivity	radioactivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discovery	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 radioactivity	nmod
13	1896	1896	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 year	flat
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 attributed	aux:pass
15	properly	properly	ADV	_	16 attributed	advmod
16	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 whom	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the individual		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent individual=Theme to whom=be'
2	attribute	present · passive		the discovery of radioactivity in the year	properly property	tree rules
3	discover			radioactivity in the year		nom discovery «act 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

Henri Becquerel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Henri	Henri	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Becquerel	Becquerel	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Henri	flat

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

Option 2

Marie Curie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Curie	Curie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Marie	flat

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

Option 3

Galileo Galilei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Galileo	Galileo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Galilei	Galilei	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Galileo	flat

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

Option 4

Albert Einstein

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Albert	Albert	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Einstein	Einstein	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Albert	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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