Test 6 · ★★★ · The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies
A medieval merchant from Bruges in 1337 time-travels to today. Why can't he sail home to his port?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: medieval merchant, merchant · What happens: travel, not sail · To what, where: port
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 medieval merchant from Bruges in 1337 time-travels to today.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 2 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 merchant | amod |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travels | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Bruges | case |
| 5 | Bruges | Bruges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 merchant | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1337 | case |
| 7 | 1337 | 1337 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 merchant | nmod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 1337 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 10 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 today | case |
| 12 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travels | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 travels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | a medieval merchant from Bruges in 1337 time | today | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Why can't he sail home to his port?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 sail | advmod |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sail | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sail | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sail | nsubj |
| 5 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 sail | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 port | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 port | nmod:poss |
| 9 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sail | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sail | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sail | can | merchant | merchant's port | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to port=Trajectory |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ships are banned in Belgium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 banned | aux:pass |
| 3 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Belgium | case |
| 5 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 banned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | present · passive | Ships | Belgium | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Bruges is under the sea now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruges | Bruges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sea | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sea | cop |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sea | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bruges | the sea | now | tree rules |
Option 3
Bruges was moved to France, stone by stone, after a war
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruges | Bruges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moved | aux:pass |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 France | case |
| 5 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stone | punct |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 France | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 war | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 war | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 war | det |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | stone | Bruges | France and stone | after a war | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to france=Result |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Its channel silted up and the sea is far away now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 channel | nmod:poss |
| 2 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 silted | nsubj |
| 3 | silted | silt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 silted | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 away | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 away | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 away | cop |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 silted | advmod |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 away | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | silt up | participle | Its channel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the sea | now | away, far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | channel | Its = it | nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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