Exam question 2 · Easter and Pentecost

Ascertain the interval elapsing between Easter and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, interval, Holy Spirit · What happens: ascertain, elapse, descend · To what, where: interval

This is exam question 2 of lesson 19 «Easter and Pentecost» of the religion ethics 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 interval	det
3	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	elapsing	elapse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 interval	acl
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 Easter	case
6	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 elapsing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 descent	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 descent	det
9	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Easter	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Spirit	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Spirit	det
12	Holy	Holy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Spirit	flat
13	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 descent	nmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 disciples	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 disciples	det
16	disciples	disciple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 elapsing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the interval		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic
2	elapse	gerund	the interval not said here		between Easter and the descent of the Holy Spirit; upon the disciples	tree rules
3	descend		the Holy Spirit			nom descent «event intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Twelve days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Forty days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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