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Test 7 · ★ · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

Peter the Great's new capital was built on marshy land. Who paid the price?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: build, pay · To what, where: new capital, marshy land, price

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Peter the Great's new capital was built on marshy land.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 capital	nmod:poss
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Great	det
3	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Peter	flat
4	's	's	PART	_	1 Peter	case
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 capital	amod
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 built	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 built	aux:pass
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 land	amod
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 built	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		Peter's new capital		marshy land			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on land=Source

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: Who paid the price?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 price	det
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 paid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past		the price					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset

The options

Option 1

Nobody, because paid engineers from Holland built it with machines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 built	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 built	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 built	mark
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 engineers	amod
5	engineers	engineer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Holland	case
7	Holland	Holland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 engineers	nmod
8	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 built	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 machines	case
11	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle							vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	build	past	Nobody	it				with machines	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme with machine=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tens of thousands of forced labourers, many of whom died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 died	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 thousands	case
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tens	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 labourers	case
5	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 labourers	amod
6	labourers	labourer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 many	punct
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 died	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 many	nmod
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	participle							vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	die	past	Tens of thousands of forced labourers						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Merchants from Venice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Venice	case
3	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Merchants	nmod

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

Option 4

Only the Tsar's own family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 family	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Tsar	case
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 family	amod
6	family	family	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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