Test 5 · ★★ · Glaciers and ice ages
An early hunter 12,000 years ago wants to walk from England to the Netherlands. Could he?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: early hunter · What happens: want, walk · To what, where: England
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Glaciers and ice ages» 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: An early hunter 12,000 years ago wants to walk from England to the Netherlands.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunter | amod |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wants | nsubj |
| 4 | 12,000 | 12,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 hunter | advmod |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 walk | mark |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wants | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 England | case |
| 11 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Netherlands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Netherlands | det |
| 14 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a early hunter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk not said to happen | to-infinitive | a early hunter not said here | England | to the Netherlands result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to netherlands=Result |
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: Could he?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 he | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 he | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
No, the sea was even deeper then than it is now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 deeper | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deeper | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deeper | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 deeper | cop |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 deeper | advmod |
| 7 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 deeper | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deeper | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deeper | cop |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 deeper | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sea | then; now | than it; deep property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yes, across Doggerland while the sea was low
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 Doggerland | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Doggerland | punct |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 4 Doggerland | case |
| 4 | Doggerland | Doggerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 low | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 low | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 low | cop |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Doggerland | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sea | low property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only by boat across a wide ocean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 boat | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 boat | case |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 ocean | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ocean | det |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ocean | amod |
| 7 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No, people did not exist then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 exist | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 exist | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exist | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 exist | advmod |
| 6 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 exist | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exist | past · do-support | people | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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