Test 10 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

ok so how did Eratosthenes measure the earth, he didn't have a plane?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eratosthenes · What happens: measure, not have · To what, where: earth, plane

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 12 «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 measure	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 measure	advmod
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 measure	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 measure	aux
5	Eratosthenes	Eratosthenes	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 measure	nsubj
6	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measure	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 measure	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 plane	det
15	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 measure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past · do-support	Eratosthenes	the earth					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme earth=Value
2	not have	past · do-support	Eratosthenes	a plane					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plane=Patient

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

He asked a god

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 god	det
4	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He		a god				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He used shadows and some clever maths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 maths	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 maths	det
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maths	amod
7	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shadows	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	He	shadows and some clever maths					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient

Option 3

He walked all the way round the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obj
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	He	all way		the world			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme round world=Trajectory

Option 4

He sailed around it in a year and counted the days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 counted	cc
9	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 days	det
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 counted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	He			it	year		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Trajectory
2	count	past	He not said here				day		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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