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

Ascertain the regions wherein the majority of the world's Christians presently reside.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, majority · What happens: ascertain, reside · To what, where: regions

This is exam question 3 of lesson 29 «Churches of the English-speaking world II» 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 regions	det
3	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	13 reside	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 majority	det
6	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reside	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 Christians	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Christians	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 world	case
11	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 majority	nmod
12	presently	presently	ADV	_	13 reside	advmod
13	reside	reside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 regions	acl:relcl
14	.	.	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 regions					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Topic
2	reside	present	the majority of the world's Christians					presently, wherein property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Africa, Latin America and Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 America	punct
3	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 America	compound
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Africa	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Asia	cc
6	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Africa	conj

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

Option 2

The Middle East exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 East	det
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 East	compound
3	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	3 East	advmod

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

Option 3

Western Europe exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Europe	amod
2	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 Europe	advmod

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

Option 4

North America exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 America	compound
2	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 America	advmod

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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