Test 7 · ★★ · Glaciers and ice ages
Paintings of London show people having fairs on the frozen Thames in the 1600s. Which cold time fits?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Paintings, people, cold time · What happens: show, have, freeze, fit · To what, where: people, fairs, frozen Thames
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Paintings of London show people having fairs on the frozen Thames in the 1600s.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 show | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 London | case |
| 3 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Paintings | nmod |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 show | obj |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 people | acl |
| 7 | fairs | fair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 having | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Thames | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Thames | det |
| 10 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Thames | amod |
| 11 | Thames | Thames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fairs | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1600s | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 1600s | det |
| 14 | 1600s | 1600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 having | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Paintings of London | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | people not said here | fairs | the frozen Thames | in the 1600s | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fair=Patient | ||
| 3 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: Which cold time fits?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 time | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fits | nsubj |
| 4 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | which cold time | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Cambrian explosion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 explosion | det |
| 2 | Cambrian | Cambrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 explosion | compound |
| 3 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The last great ice age
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 age | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 age | amod |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 age | amod |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 age | compound |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Little Ice Age
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Age | det |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Age | amod |
| 3 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Age | compound |
| 4 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Jurassic period
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 period | det |
| 2 | Jurassic | Jurassic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 period | compound |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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