Test 11 · The Silk Road
According to a well-known story, monks smuggled something to the Byzantine Empire in the 500s. What?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monks · What happens: accord, know, smuggle · To what, where: something, Byzantine Empire, 500s
This is test 11 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
Sentence 1: According to a well-known story, monks smuggled something to the Byzantine Empire in the 500s.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 story | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 known | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smuggled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 9 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 smuggled | nsubj |
| 10 | smuggled | smuggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 smuggled | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Empire | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Empire | det |
| 14 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Empire | compound |
| 15 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 smuggled | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 500s | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 500s | det |
| 18 | 500s | 500 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 smuggled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 smuggled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | smuggle | past | monks | something | the Byzantine Empire | the 500s | accord a known story | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme to empire=Destination |
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.
Sentence 2: What?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Gunpowder recipes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gunpowder | gunpowder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recipes | compound |
| 2 | recipes | recipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sacks of potatoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 potatoes | case |
| 3 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sacks | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Silkworm eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silkworm | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eggs | compound |
| 2 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tea plant seeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plant | compound |
| 2 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeds | compound |
| 3 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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