Test 5 · ★★★ · The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies

A history book says "In 1337, 4,213,560 people lived in England." What should you think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: history book, 1337 people, you · What happens: say, live, think · To what, where: England · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies» 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 history book says "In 1337, 4,213,560 people lived in England."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 book	compound
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 1337	punct
6	In	in	ADP	_	7 1337	case
7	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 people	nummod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 1337	punct
9	4,213,560	4,213,560	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 1337	nmod:unmarked
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 England	case
13	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a history book						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live in a quote	past	1337 people			England			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location

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: What should you think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	should	you						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is far too big, England was empty

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	5 big	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 big	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 empty	punct
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 empty	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 empty	cop
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					big, far property	tree rules
2	is	past	England					empty property	tree rules

Option 2

It is exact, because the king's clerks counted every single person by name

The tree, 14 words

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 exact	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 exact	cop
3	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 counted	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 counted	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clerks	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 counted	nsubj
10	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exact	conj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 person	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 person	amod
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counted	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 name	case
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					exact property	tree rules
2	count	past	the king's clerks	every single person				by name	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is a guess dressed as an exact number, since there was no census

The tree, 14 words

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	4 guess	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 guess	det
4	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guess	acl
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 number	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 number	det
8	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 number	amod
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dressed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 was	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 census	det
15	census	census	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a guess			tree rules
2	dress	participle		a guess not said here		as a exact number	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	no census		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It must come from the Domesday Book

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 come	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 Book	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Book	det
6	Domesday	Domesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Book	compound
7	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	must	It			the Domesday Book			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from book=Initial_Location

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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