Exam question 3 · Decades, centuries and millennia

Ascertain the date upon which the third millennium commenced.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, third millennium · What happens: ascertain, commence · To what, where: date

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 commenced	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 millennium	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 millennium	amod
8	millennium	millennium	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 commenced	nsubj
9	commenced	commence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 date	acl:relcl
10	.	.	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 date					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	commence	participle	the third millennium					upon the date	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 first of January, 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 2000	punct
6	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 January	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The first of January, 2001

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 2001	punct
6	2001	2001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 January	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

The thirty-first of December, 1999

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thirty	det
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 first	punct
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 thirty	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 December	case
6	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 first	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 1999	punct
8	1999	1999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 thirty	conj

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

Option 4

The first of January, 2100

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 first	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 2100	punct
6	2100	2100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 first	appos

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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