Exam question 2 · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

Identify the years comprising the twentieth century.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, years · What happens: identify, comprise

This is exam question 2 of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	comprising	comprise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 years	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 century	det
6	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 century	amod
7	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comprising	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here				year		vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	comprise	gerund	the 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

2001 to 2100

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2001	2001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 2100	case
3	2100	2100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 2001	nmod

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

Option 2

1900 to 1999

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 1999	case
3	1999	1999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 1900	nmod

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

Option 3

1800 to 1899

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1800	1800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 1899	case
3	1899	1899	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 1800	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

1901 to 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1901	1901	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 2000	case
3	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 1901	nmod

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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