Test 6 · ★ · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

Why did the English lose Gascony?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: English · What happens: lose · To what, where: Gascony

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lose	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 English	det
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lose	nsubj
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Gascony	gascony	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	the English	Gascony					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gascony=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

It joined Scotland

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	2 joined	nsubj
2	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 joined	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past	It	Scotland					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scotland=Patient

Option 2

They sold it to the King of Spain for a ship full of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Spain	case
8	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 ship	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ship	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	They	it	the King of Spain			for a ship	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient for ship=Asset

Option 3

The sea flooded it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flooded	nsubj
3	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flooded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	past	the sea	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was taken by France in the Hundred Years' War

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 taken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux:pass
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 France	case
5	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 War	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Years	det
8	Hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 Years	nummod
9	Years	Year	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 War	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 Years	case
11	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive	France	It		the Hundred Years's War			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Value in war=Location

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