Test 7 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta
The Marathon runner story. What do historians say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: historians · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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: The Marathon runner story.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 2 | Marathon | Marathon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 3 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What do historians say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | historians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The battle is real, the runner story is a later legend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 real | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 legend | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 legend | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 legend | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 legend | det |
| 11 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 legend | amod |
| 12 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 real | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the battle | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the runner story | a later legend | tree rules |
Option 2
Both the battle and the runner are made up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 3 battle | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 runner | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 runner | det |
| 6 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 battle | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 made | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | present · passive | the battle and the runner | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
Option 3
The race only happened in 2004 at the Olympics
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 race | det |
| 2 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 2004 | case |
| 6 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 happened | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Olympics | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Olympics | det |
| 9 | Olympics | Olympic | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 happened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the race | 2004 | at the Olympics | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 2004=Location |
Option 4
The runner was really the Persian king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 runner | det |
| 2 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 king | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the runner | the Persian king | tree rules |
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