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Test 2 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

Your mate says the wooden horse of Troy is proven history. What is fair to say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say, prove, be · To what, where: wooden horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: Your mate says the wooden horse of Troy is proven history.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proven	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Troy	case
8	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 horse	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 proven	aux:pass
10	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
11	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proven	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	prove	present · passive		the wooden horse of Troy					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme history=Attribute

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 is fair to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fair	csubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

It is in every history book as a proven fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 book	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 book	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 book	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 book	det
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 fact	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fact	det
9	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fact	amod
10	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			every history book		as a proven fact	tree rules
2	prove	participle							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Homer filmed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Homer	homer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 filmed	nsubj
2	filmed	film	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 filmed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film	past	Homer	it					vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Archaeologists dug up the whole wooden horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Archaeologists	archaeologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dug	nsubj
2	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dug	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dug	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	Archaeologists	the whole wooden horse					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a story from legend, not proven history

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 legend	case
6	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 history	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 proven	advmod
9	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 history	amod
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a story and proven history		legend			tree rules
2	not prove	participle							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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