Exam question 4 · Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave

Ascertain the customary period within which Muslims inter the deceased.

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 63 «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» 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	4 period	det
3	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 period	compound
4	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	within	within	ADP	_	8 inter	mark
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 inter	nsubj
7	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 inter	nsubj
8	inter	int	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Ascertain	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 deceased	det
10	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 inter	advcl
11	.	.	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 customary period					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic
2	decease	participle	you not said here						vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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

Within forty days of the death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 death	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 death	det
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod

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

Option 2

Within one calendar year of the death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 year	compound
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 death	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 death	det
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 year	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Within one day, where practicable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Within	within	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practicable	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 practicable	advmod
6	practicable	practicable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

At a date chosen by the eldest son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 date	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 date	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 son	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 son	amod
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chosen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	participle		a date not said here				by the eldest son	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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