Exam question 3 · Churches of the English-speaking world I

Ascertain the persons to whom the foundation of Methodism is principally attributed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, attribute · To what, where: persons, foundation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 28 «Churches of the English-speaking world I» 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 persons	det
3	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 persons	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foundation	det
7	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attributed	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Methodism	case
9	Methodism	Methodism	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 foundation	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 attributed	aux:pass
11	principally	principally	ADV	_	12 attributed	advmod
12	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 whom	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the persons					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic
2	attribute	present · passive		the foundation of Methodism				principally property	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

Martin Luther and John Calvin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Luther	Luther	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Martin	flat
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 John	cc
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Martin	conj
5	Calvin	Calvin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 John	flat

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

Option 2

George Fox and Margaret Fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 George	flat
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Margaret	cc
4	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 George	conj
5	Fell	Fell	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Margaret	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

John and Charles Wesley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Charles	cc
3	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 John	conj
4	Wesley	Wesley	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Charles	flat

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

Option 4

William and Catherine Booth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Catherine	cc
3	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 William	conj
4	Booth	Booth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Catherine	flat

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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