Test 4 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires
A Mexican pupil says her city stands where Tenochtitlan stood. Is she right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mexican pupil, city, Tenochtitlan · What happens: say, stand, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» 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 Mexican pupil says her city stands where Tenochtitlan stood.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pupil | det |
| 2 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pupil | amod |
| 3 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 city | nmod:poss |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | nsubj |
| 7 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | advmod |
| 9 | Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stands | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Mexican pupil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stand | present | pupil's city | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | Tenochtitlan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Is she right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tenochtitlan | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yes, Mexico City was built on its ruins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 built | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mexico | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux:pass |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ruins | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ruins | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 built | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | Mexico | its ruins | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on ruin=Source | ||||
| 2 | ruin | its = it | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
No, Tenochtitlan was in Peru
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 Peru | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Peru | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Peru | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Peru | case |
| 6 | Peru | Peru | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tenochtitlan | Peru | tree rules |
Option 3
No, Tenochtitlan was in Spain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 Spain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Spain | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Spain | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Spain | case |
| 6 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tenochtitlan | Spain | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, but only the airport
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 airport | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 airport | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 airport | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 airport | det |
| 6 | airport | airport | 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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