Test 6 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

Why would Athens want a strong navy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Athens · What happens: want · To what, where: strong navy

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 want	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 navy	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 navy	amod
7	navy	navy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	Athens	a strong navy					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot navy=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It had no coast at all

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 coast	det
4	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	no coast		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient

Option 2

Ships were cheaper than shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 shoes	case
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ships					than shoes; cheap property	tree rules

Option 3

The gods banned armies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gods	det
2	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 armies	nsubj
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 armies	amod
4	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	participle							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It lived by trade and the sea

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	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 trade	case
4	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sea	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trade	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	It					by trade and the sea	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by trade=Location

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