Test 6 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean
bloody hell, a thousand years? How long did the Republic of Venice last really
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Republic
This is test 6 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: bloody hell, a thousand years?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hell | amod |
| 2 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 years | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thousand | det |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hell | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 hell | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: How long did the Republic of Venice last really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Republic | det |
| 5 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Venice | case |
| 7 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Republic | nmod |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Republic of Venice | long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About a hundred years, until 1500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1500 | punct |
| 6 | until | until | ADP | _ | 7 1500 | case |
| 7 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
It still exists today as a republic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 exists | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 exists | advmod |
| 3 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exists | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 republic | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 republic | det |
| 7 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exists | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | It | still; today | as a republic | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About a thousand years, until 1797
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thousand | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1797 | punct |
| 6 | until | until | ADP | _ | 7 1797 | case |
| 7 | 1797 | 1797 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About fifty years, until 1453
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 fifty | advmod |
| 2 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1453 | punct |
| 5 | until | until | ADP | _ | 6 1453 | case |
| 6 | 1453 | 1453 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | 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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