Test 9 · The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia

Why did the Safavids and the Ottomans often fight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, fight · To what, where: Safavids

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Safavids	det
4	Safavids	Safavid	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 fight	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Ottomans	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ottomans	det
7	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 Safavids	conj
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 fight	advmod
9	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fight	present		the Safavids and the Ottomans				often property	vn battle-36.4-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They fought over the Great Wall

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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 Wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wall	det
5	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Wall	amod
6	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	They					over the Great Wall	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over wall=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were rival neighbours, and the Safavids were Shia, the Ottomans Sunni

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	4 neighbours	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 neighbours	cop
3	rival	rival	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 neighbours	amod
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Shia	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Safavids	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Safavids	det
8	Safavids	Safavid	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Shia	compound
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Shia	cop
10	Shia	Shia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 neighbours	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Ottomans	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ottomans	det
13	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Shia	conj
14	Sunni	Sunni	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Shia	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	rival neighbours					tree rules
2	is a	past		Safavids Shia and the Ottomans				sunni property	tree rules

Option 3

Both wanted to rule Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	2 wanted	cc:preconj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rule	mark
4	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rule	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	rule not said to happen	to-infinitive		Japan					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent japan=Result

Option 4

The Safavids wanted to take the Taj Mahal from the Mughals

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	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mahal	det
7	Taj	Taj	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mahal	compound
8	Mahal	Mahal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 Mughals	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mughals	det
11	Mughals	Mughal	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the Safavids						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Safavids not said here	the Taj Mahal		the Mughals			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mahal=Theme from mughal=Initial_Location

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