Exam question 1 · Decades, centuries and millennia

Determine the span of years constituting the twenty-first century.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, years · What happens: determine, constitute · To what, where: span

This is exam question 1 of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» of the world 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 span	det
3	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 span	nmod
6	constituting	constitute	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 years	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 century	det
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 first	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 twenty	punct
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 century	amod
11	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 constituting	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the span of years					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent span=Topic
2	constitute	gerund	years not said here				century		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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

From 2000 to 2099 inclusive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 2000	case
2	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 2099	case
4	2099	2099	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 2000	nmod
5	inclusive	inclusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 2000	amod

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

Option 2

From 2100 to 2199 inclusive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 2100	case
2	2100	2100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 2199	case
4	2199	2199	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 2100	nmod
5	inclusive	inclusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 2100	amod

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

Option 3

From 1901 to 2000 inclusive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 1901	case
2	1901	1901	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 2000	case
4	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1901	nmod
5	inclusive	inclusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 1901	amod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

From 2001 to 2100 inclusive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 2001	case
2	2001	2001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 2100	case
4	2100	2100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 2001	nmod
5	inclusive	inclusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 2001	amod

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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