Test 5 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

Why are hands painted on cave walls in Indonesia and Argentina so interesting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: paint · To what, where: hands, cave walls

This is test 5 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	4 painted	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 painted	nsubj
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	compound
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 painted	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Indonesia	case
9	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 walls	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Argentina	cc
11	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Indonesia	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 interesting	advmod
13	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 painted	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 painted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present · passive		hands		cave walls in Indonesia and Argentina		interesting property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wall=Destination

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 · ← Mova's choice

They prove both places were one country

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 prove	nsubj
2	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 places	det
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 country	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 country	cop
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 country	nummod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prove	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	They						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	both places	one country					tree rules

Option 2

They were painted by the same person

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	3 painted	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 painted	aux:pass
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 person	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive	the same person	They					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

People far apart had the same idea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 apart	advmod
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 idea	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 idea	amod
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	People	the same idea				apart property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient

Option 4

They show people wrote letters to each other

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 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 show	ccomp
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 wrote	obl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	write	past	people	letters	each				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to each=Recipient

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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