Test 8 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

Why do we know a lot about Ötzi but little about most people of his time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: know · To what, where: lot

This is test 8 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 know	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 Ötzi	case
8	Ötzi	Ötzi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lot	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 little	cc
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Ötzi	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 people	case
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 time	nmod:poss
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	we	a lot				about Ötzi; about most people of Ötzi's time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus

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

Someone painted his whole life in a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 painted	nsubj
2	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 life	amod
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cave	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	Someone	his whole life		a cave			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in cave=Destination

Option 2

He wrote a long diary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 diary	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 diary	amod
5	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	He	a long diary					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Theme

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

The ice kept his body and his things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ice	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 body	nmod:poss
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 things	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 things	nmod:poss
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 body	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the ice	ice's body and ice's things					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme

Option 4

He was a famous king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 king	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 king	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a famous king					tree rules

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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