Exam question 4 · Adverts, slogans and polls

Ascertain the period within which candidates in Ireland are required to remove their election posters following the poll.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, candidates · What happens: ascertain, require, remove, follow, post · To what, where: period, candidates, election posters, poll

This is exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics 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 period	det
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 required	obl
6	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 required	nsubj:pass
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ireland	case
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 candidates	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 required	aux:pass
10	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 period	appos
11	to	to	PART	_	12 remove	mark
12	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 required	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 posters	nmod:poss
14	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 posters	compound
15	posters	poster	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 remove	obj
16	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 remove	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 poll	det
18	poll	poll	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 following	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the period		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic
2	require	present · passive		candidates in Ireland	within the period	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	remove	to-infinitive		candidates's election posters		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poster=Theme
4	follow	gerund		the poll		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poll=Theme
5	post		candidates = candidate			nom poster «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Prior to the poll itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	4 poll	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 Prior	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poll	det
4	poll	poll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 poll	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Within one week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	3 week	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 week	nummod
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Within one full year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Within one single hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	4 hour	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hour	nummod
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hour	amod
4	hour	hour	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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