Exam question 3 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises Remembrance Day?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: Remembrance Day

This is exam question 3 of lesson 97 «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Remembrance	Remembrance	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Day	compound
10	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		Remembrance Day				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

It marks the birth of Jesus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marks	nsubj
2	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birth	det
4	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Jesus	case
6	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 birth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	It	the birth of Jesus					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent birth=Destination

Option 2

It marks the Declaration of Independence of 1776

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marks	nsubj
2	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Declaration	det
4	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 marks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Independence	case
6	Independence	Independence	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Declaration	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 1776	case
8	1776	1776	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Declaration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	It	the Declaration of Independence of 1776					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent declaration=Theme

Option 3

It marks the plot against Parliament in 1605

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marks	nsubj
2	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plot	det
4	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marks	obj
5	against	against	ADP	_	6 Parliament	case
6	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plot	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1605	case
8	1605	1605	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 plot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	It	the plot		1605		against Parliament	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent plot=Theme against parliament=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It marks the end of the First World War in 1918

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marks	nsubj
2	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 War	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 War	det
7	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 War	amod
8	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 War	compound
9	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1918	case
11	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 marks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	It	the end of the First World War		1918			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme in 1918=Destination

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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