--- title: Ascertain the number of persons burned in the Salem witch trials of… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the number of persons burned in the Salem witch trials of 1692. Exam question 4 of lesson 36 «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/) / [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ Ascertain the number of persons burned in the Salem witch trials of 1692. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, burn · **To what, where:** number, persons, Salem witch trials This is exam question 4 of lesson 36 «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the number of persons burned in the Salem witch trials of 1692. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Salem Salem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 trials trial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 1692 1692 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of persons | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **burn** | participle | | persons *not said here* | | the Salem witch trials of 1692 | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trial=Location | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Nineteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:e4:o1:1 # text = Nineteen 1 Nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} None ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:e4:o2:1 # text = None 1 None none PRON NN PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:e4:o3:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:e4:o4:1 # text = Twenty 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 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. 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