Test 11 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

Why would a band of hunter-gatherers share their food?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: band · What happens: share · To what, where: food

This is test 11 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 share	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 share	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 band	det
4	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 share	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 gatherers	case
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gatherers	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hunter	punct
8	gatherers	gatherer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 band	nmod
9	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 food	nmod:poss
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 share	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 share	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	would	a band of hunter gatherers	gatherers's food					tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1

Keeping food for yourself was against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 law	csubj
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 yourself	case
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Keeping	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 law	cop
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 law	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 law	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		food				for yourself	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	is	past	Keeping					against the law	tree rules

Option 2

Sharing was forced by a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 forced	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	gerund							tree rules
2	force	past · passive	a king						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They looked after each other to survive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 looked	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	to	to	PART	_	7 survive	mark
7	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	They				after each		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	survive	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They had too much to ever eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	much					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive					ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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