Exam question 2 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others
State the number of persons reported by the United Nations to have been displaced from their homes in Sudan.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, report, displace · To what, where: number, persons, homes
This is exam question 2 of lesson 28 «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» 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 | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 persons | case |
| 5 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 persons | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Nations | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Nations | det |
| 9 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 10 Nations | compound |
| 10 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 reported | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 displaced | mark |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 displaced | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 displaced | aux:pass |
| 14 | displaced | displace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reported | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 homes | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 homes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 displaced | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Sudan | case |
| 19 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 displaced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of persons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | report | participle | persons not said here | by the United Nations | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | displace | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | Nations's homes | in Sudan | tree rules |
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
In excess of twelve million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 excess | case |
| 2 | excess | excess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 million | case |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 million | compound |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 excess | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
None whatsoever in any region
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 1 None | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 region | case |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 region | det |
| 5 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 None | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Approximately twelve hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Approximately twelve persons in all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 twelve | advmod |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 persons | nummod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 persons | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others/e2/