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Test 2 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

Ancient Greeks wanted bronze but had copper and no tin. What would they need to do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ancient Greeks, Greeks · What happens: want, have, need, do · To what, where: bronze, copper

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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: Ancient Greeks wanted bronze but had copper and no tin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Greeks	amod
2	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tin	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 tin	det
10	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 copper	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Ancient Greeks	bronze					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bronze=Theme
2	have	past	Ancient Greeks not said here	copper and no tin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=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: What would they need to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 need	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	Greeks = greek						tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Greeks = greek not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Melt sand into tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melt	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 tin	case
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	imperative	you not said here	sand		tin			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent sand=Material into tin=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Trade for tin from places like Cornwall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 tin	case
3	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trade	nmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 places	case
5	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tin	nmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 Cornwall	case
7	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 places	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Just use copper on its own and call it bronze anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 use	advmod
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 call	cc
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 use	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 call	obj
10	bronze	bronze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 call	xcomp
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 bronze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	copper		copper's own			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Patient
2	call	infinitive	you not said here	copper					tree rules
3	bronze	infinitive	you not said here					anyway property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Use salt instead of tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	5 tin	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	salt				instead tin	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient

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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