Exam question 2 · Transport: from horses to planes
Identify the persons who made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight, together with the year thereof.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, persons · What happens: identify, make, power, control · To what, where: persons, first powered controlled aeroplane flight
This is exam question 2 of lesson 99 «Transport: from horses to planes» 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 persons | det |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 persons | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flight | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 flight | amod |
| 8 | powered | power | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flight | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 powered | punct |
| 10 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flight | amod |
| 11 | aeroplane | aeroplane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flight | compound |
| 12 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 together | punct |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 18 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the persons | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the persons | the first powered controlled aeroplane flight | year | thereof, together property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Product | ||
| 3 | power | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | control | participle | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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
Henry Ford, in 1913
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Henry | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1913 | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1913 | case |
| 5 | 1913 | 1913 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Henry | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Wright brothers, in 1825
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | Wright | Wright | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brothers | compound |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1825 | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1825 | case |
| 6 | 1825 | 1825 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 brothers | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Karl Benz, in 1886
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Benz | Benz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Karl | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1886 | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1886 | case |
| 5 | 1886 | 1886 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Karl | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Wright brothers, in 1903
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | Wright | Wright | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brothers | compound |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1903 | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1903 | case |
| 6 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 brothers | 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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