Test 6 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires

ugh Pizarro got the gold AND killed the emperor anyway??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pizarro · What happens: get, kill · To what, where: gold, emperor

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	3 got	discourse
2	Pizarro	Pizarro	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	AND	and	CCONJ	_	7 killed	cc
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 emperor	det
9	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	obj
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 killed	advmod
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Pizarro	the gold					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus
2	kill	past	Pizarro not said here	the emperor				anyway property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1

No, Atahualpa became a Spanish duke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Atahualpa	Atahualpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 duke	det
6	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 duke	amod
7	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Atahualpa	a Spanish duke					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, Atahualpa was killed in 1533 after the ransom was paid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Atahualpa	Atahualpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 killed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 killed	aux:pass
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1533	case
7	1533	1533	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 killed	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 paid	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ransom	det
10	ransom	ransom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 paid	aux:pass
12	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 killed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · passive		Atahualpa		1533			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	pay	past · passive		the ransom					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 3

No, he gave all the gold back and sailed home to Spain in shame

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 gold	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sailed	cc
10	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 sailed	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Spain	case
13	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sailed	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 shame	case
15	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	all gold					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	sail	past	he not said here		Spain	shame		home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to spain=Trajectory

Option 4

Yes, but only after 100 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 years	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 years	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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