Test 1 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

bro watched 300 and says only 300 guys fought at Thermopylae. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, 300 guys · What happens: watch, say, fight · To what, where: 300, Thermopylae · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 watched	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 watched	conj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 300	advmod
7	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 guys	nummod
8	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fought	nsubj
9	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Thermopylae	case
11	Thermopylae	Thermopylae	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fought	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	2 watched	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	watch	past	bro	300		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	bro not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fight	past	300 guys		Thermopylae	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

No, there were 3 million Spartans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 were	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 million	compound
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Spartans	nummod
7	Spartans	spartan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	million Spartans			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, and they all lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lived	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, several thousand other Greeks fought too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 thousand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thousand	amod
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fought	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Greeks	amod
6	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 fought	nsubj
7	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	other Greeks	several thousand					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, exactly 300 and no more, the film is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 300	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 300	advmod
4	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 more	cc
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 300	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 300	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 300	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the film					right property	tree rules

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