Exam question 2 · Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and…

State the year in which the United Nations was established.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: establish · To what, where: United Nations

This is exam question 2 of lesson 23 «Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 established	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Nations	det
7	United	United	PROPN	_	8 Nations	compound
8	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 established	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 established	aux:pass
10	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 year	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	establish	past · passive		the United Nations			in the year		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Nineteen hundred and fourteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fourteen	cc
4	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 2

Two thousand and one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 one	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nineteen forty-five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Nineteen	nmod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 five	punct
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 forty	conj

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

Option 4

Nineteen eighty-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 eighty	compound
2	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nine	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 nine	punct
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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