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Exam question 4 · Ancient times and famous stories

It is given that the persons condemned at Salem in the year 1692 were put to death. Ascertain the manner in which nineteen of them were executed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: persons, you · What happens: give, condemn, put, ascertain, execute · To what, where: It, Salem, manner, nineteen

This is exam question 4 of lesson 21 «Ancient times and famous stories» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that the persons condemned at Salem in the year 1692 were put to death.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 condemned	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 persons	det
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 condemned	nsubj
7	condemned	condemn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Salem	case
9	Salem	Salem	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 condemned	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
13	1692	1692	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 year	flat
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	aux:pass
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 condemned	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	condemn	past	the persons			Salem			vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	put	past · passive	the persons not said here				year	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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.

Sentence 2: Ascertain the manner in which nineteen of them were executed.

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 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 executed	obl
6	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 executed	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nineteen	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 executed	aux:pass
10	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 manner	acl:relcl
11	.	.	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 manner					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Topic
2	execute	past · passive		nineteen of persons		the manner			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

By burning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 burning	mark
2	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By hanging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 hanging	mark
2	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

By exile at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 exile	case
2	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 sea	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exile	nmod

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

Option 4

By drowning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 drowning	mark
2	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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