Test 10 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean
Mehmed II takes Constantinople in 1453. Which empire ends?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mehmed, empire · What happens: take, end · To what, where: Constantinople, 1453
This is test 10 of lesson 32 «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» 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: Mehmed II takes Constantinople in 1453.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mehmed | Mehmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 1 Mehmed | flat |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1453 | case |
| 6 | 1453 | 1453 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 takes | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Mehmed | Constantinople | 1453 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent constantinople=Value in 1453=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.
Sentence 2: Which empire ends?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 empire | det |
| 2 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | which empire | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Roman Republic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Republic | det |
| 2 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Republic | compound |
| 3 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Mughal Empire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empire | det |
| 2 | Mughal | mughal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Empire | compound |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Republic of Genoa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Republic | det |
| 2 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Genoa | case |
| 4 | Genoa | Genoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Republic | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Byzantine Empire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empire | det |
| 2 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Empire | compound |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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