Exam question 2 · Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Irel…
Identify the person who exercises the functions of head of government in Ireland.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, exercise · To what, where: person, functions, Ireland
This is exam question 2 of lesson 9 «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 exercises | nsubj |
| 5 | exercises | exercise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 person | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 functions | det |
| 7 | functions | function | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 exercises | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 functions | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 government | case |
| 11 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Ireland | case |
| 13 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exercises | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the person | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exercise | present | the person | the functions of head of government | Ireland | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=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
The monarch of the United Kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monarch | det |
| 2 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Kingdom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Kingdom | det |
| 5 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 6 Kingdom | flat |
| 6 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 monarch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Ceann Comhairle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Comhairle | det |
| 2 | Ceann | Ceann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Comhairle | compound |
| 3 | Comhairle | Comhairle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The President of Ireland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 President | det |
| 2 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 President | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Taoiseach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Taoiseach | det |
| 2 | Taoiseach | Taoiseach | PROPN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/e2/