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Test 9 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

Spartan girls did sports too. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Spartan girls · What happens: do · To what, where: sports

This is test 9 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: Spartan girls did sports too.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spartan	spartan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 girls	amod
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Spartan girls	sports					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Eventuality

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Girls were the only soldiers in Sparta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 soldiers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soldiers	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldiers	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soldiers	amod
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Sparta	case
7	Sparta	Sparta	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 soldiers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Girls	the only soldiers		Sparta			tree rules

Option 2

They were training to row in the navy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 training	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 training	aux
3	training	train	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 row	mark
5	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 training	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 navy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 navy	det
8	navy	navy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 row	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	past · progressive	They						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	row	to-infinitive	They not said here			the navy			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It was a punishment for being lazy

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 punishment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 punishment	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 punishment	det
4	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 lazy	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lazy	cop
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 punishment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a punishment					tree rules
2	is	gerund						lazy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Spartans wanted them to be strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spartans	spartan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 strong	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 strong	cop
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Spartans	them = they					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	them = they not said here					strong property	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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