Test 1 · The Silk Road

Did traders in 1300 call it the Silk Road?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: 1300 · What happens: do, call · To what, where: traders, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 28 «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Did	obj
3	in	in	SCONJ	_	5 call	mark
4	1300	1300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Road	det
8	Silk	Silk	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Road	compound
9	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 call	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		traders					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trader=Eventuality
2	call	present	1300	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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

Yes, it was painted on every signpost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 painted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 painted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 painted	aux:pass
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 signpost	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 signpost	det
8	signpost	signpost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		it		every signpost			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on signpost=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the name was invented in 1877

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 invented	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 invented	aux:pass
6	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1877	case
8	1877	1877	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		the name		1877			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3

No, they called it the Spice Highway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Highway	det
7	Spice	Spice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Highway	compound
8	Highway	Highway	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	they	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, Marco Polo named it in his book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 named	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Marco	Marco	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 named	nsubj
4	Polo	Polo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Marco	flat
5	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 named	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 book	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 book	nmod:poss
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past	Marco	it		Marco's book			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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