Exam question 1 · Immigration and borders

Identify the term which denotes a person who has fled war or persecution in the country of his or her nationality.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term, person · What happens: identify, denote, flee · To what, where: term, person, war, country

This is exam question 1 of lesson 19 «Immigration and borders» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 denotes	nsubj
5	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 term	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denotes	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fled	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fled	aux
10	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 person	acl:relcl
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fled	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 persecution	cc
13	persecution	persecution	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 war	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 country	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fled	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 nationality	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nationality	nmod:poss
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 nationality	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nationality	nmod:poss
21	nationality	nationality	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 country	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the term		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	denote	present	the term	a person		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot person=Topic
3	flee	present · perfect	a person	war or persecution	the country of person's nationality	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Initial_Location

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

A border officer at a port

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 officer	det
2	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	compound
3	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 port	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 port	det
6	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 officer	nmod

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

Option 2

A citizen by birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 citizen	det
2	citizen	citizen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 birth	case
4	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 citizen	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A refugee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 refugee	det
2	refugee	refugee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A tourist travelling abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tourist	det
2	tourist	tourist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tourist	acl
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 travelling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	gerund	a tourist not said here					abroad property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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