Exam question 2 · Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembranc…

Identify the historical event commemorated by the silence observed at eleven o'clock on the eleventh day of November.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, commemorate, observe · To what, where: historical event, silence, eleven o'clock

This is exam question 2 of lesson 64 «Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembrance Day and the poppy» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 event	det
3	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 event	amod
4	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	commemorated	commemorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 event	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 silence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 silence	det
8	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 commemorated	obl
9	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 silence	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 o'clock	case
11	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 o'clock	nummod
12	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 observed	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 observed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 November	case
18	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 day	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the historical event				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme
2	commemorate	participle		the historical event not said here			by the silence	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	observe	participle		the silence not said here	eleven o'clock	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 founding of the United Nations after the Second World War

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 founding	det
2	founding	founding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Nations	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Nations	det
5	United	United	PROPN	_	6 Nations	compound
6	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 founding	nmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	11 War	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 War	det
9	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 War	amod
10	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 War	compound
11	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Nations	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	found			the United Nations after the Second World War					nom founding «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The coronation of a monarch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coronation	det
2	coronation	coronation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 monarch	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monarch	det
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coronation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coronate			a monarch					nom coronation «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The landing of troops at Gallipoli in 1915

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landing	det
2	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 troops	case
4	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 landing	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Gallipoli	case
6	Gallipoli	Gallipoli	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 landing	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1915	case
8	1915	1915	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 landing	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The armistice concluding the First World War in 1918

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 armistice	det
2	armistice	armistice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	concluding	conclude	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 armistice	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 War	det
5	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 War	amod
6	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 War	compound
7	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 concluding	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1918	case
9	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 concluding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conclude	gerund	the armistice not said here	the First World War		1918			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme

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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