Exam question 4 · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

Identify the year in which the United States declared its independence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, United States · What happens: identify, declare · To what, where: independence

This is exam question 4 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 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 declared	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 States	det
7	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 States	amod
8	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 declared	nsubj
9	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 independence	nmod:poss
11	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declared	obj
12	.	.	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	declare speech: other	past	the United States	its independence					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute

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

1865

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1865	1865	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

1776

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1776	1776	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

1812

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1812	1812	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

1492

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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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