Test 8 · The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia
A traveller in 1500 visits a huge Hindu capital near Hampi in south India. Whose capital is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: traveller, capital · What happens: visit, be · To what, where: huge Hindu capital, Hampi, capital
This is test 8 of lesson 35 «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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 traveller in 1500 visits a huge Hindu capital near Hampi in south India.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 traveller | det |
| 2 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1500 | case |
| 4 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 traveller | nmod |
| 5 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 capital | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 capital | amod |
| 8 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 capital | amod |
| 9 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | obj |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 Hampi | case |
| 11 | Hampi | Hampi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 capital | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 India | case |
| 13 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 India | compound |
| 14 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 visits | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 visits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | a traveller in 1500 | a huge Hindu capital | Hampi | in south India | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Co-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: Whose capital is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 capital | nmod:poss |
| 2 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 it | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | capital | capital | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Mughals'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mughals | det |
| 2 | Mughals | Mughal | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 Mughals | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Delhi Sultanate's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultanate | det |
| 2 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sultanate | compound |
| 3 | Sultanate | Sultanate | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Sultanate | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Vijayanagara's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vijayanagara | Vijayanagara | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Vijayanagara | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Safavids'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Safavids | det |
| 2 | Safavids | safavid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 Safavids | case |
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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