Test 6 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters
You must move camp every few weeks. What would you own?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: move, own · To what, where: camp
This is test 6 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
Sentence 1: You must move camp every few weeks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 move | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | aux |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 move | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 weeks | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weeks | amod |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 move | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | must | You | camp | week | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent camp=Theme |
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 you own?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 own | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 own | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 own | nsubj |
| 4 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 own | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | would | you | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A heavy stone oven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 oven | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 oven | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oven | compound |
| 4 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Only what you could carry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 carry | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | could | you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
Option 3
A herd of cows kept in a barn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 herd | det |
| 2 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cows | case |
| 4 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 herd | nmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cows | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 barn | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 barn | det |
| 8 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle | cows not said here | a barn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in barn=Location |
Option 4
A big library of books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 library | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 library | amod |
| 3 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 books | case |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 library | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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