Test 8 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean
A boy from a Balkan village is taken away and trained as a Janissary. Which system is this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take away, train, be · To what, where: boy, this
This is test 8 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: A boy from a Balkan village is taken away and trained as a Janissary.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 5 | Balkan | Balkan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 village | compound |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 taken | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trained | cc |
| 11 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 taken | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Janissary | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Janissary | det |
| 14 | Janissary | Janissary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 trained | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | present · passive | a boy from a Balkan village | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | train | participle | as a Janissary | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as janissary=Attribute |
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 system is this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 system | det |
| 2 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 system | nmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 system | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Commonwealth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Commonwealth | det |
| 2 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The devshirme
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 devshirme | det |
| 2 | devshirme | devshirme | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The encomienda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 encomienda | det |
| 2 | encomienda | encomienda | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Serfdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serfdom | serfdom | NOUN | 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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