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Test 11 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

Alexander spread Greek language and ideas from Egypt to India. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alexander · What happens: spread, be · To what, where: Greek language, India, Egypt

This is test 11 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Alexander spread Greek language and ideas from Egypt to India.

nsubjamodobjccconjcaseoblcaseoblpunctrootAlexanderPROPNspreadVERBGreekADJlanguageNOUNandCCONJideasNOUNfromADPEgyptPROPNtoADPIndiaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AlexanderAlexanderPROPNNumber=Sing2 spreadnsubj
2spreadspreadVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3GreekGreekADJDegree=Pos4 languageamod
4languagelanguageNOUNNumber=Sing2 spreadobj
5andandCCONJ_6 ideascc
6ideasideaNOUNNumber=Plur4 languageconj
7fromfromADP_8 Egyptcase
8EgyptEgyptPROPNNumber=Sing2 spreadobl
9totoADP_10 Indiacase
10IndiaIndiaPROPNNumber=Sing2 spreadobl
11..PUNCT_2 spreadpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spreadpastAlexanderGreek language and ideasIndiaEgyptvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location language=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.

Sentence 2: Which is true?

nsubjcoppunctrootWhichPRONisAUXtrueADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhichwhichPRONPronType=Rel3 truensubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 truecop
3truetrueADJDegree=Posrootroot
4??PUNCT_3 truepunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresenttrue propertytree rules

The options

Option 1

He never left Greece

nsubjadvmodobjrootHePRONneverADVleftVERBGreecePROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 leftnsubj
2neverneverADVPronType=Neg3 leftadvmod
3leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4GreeceGreecePROPNNumber=Sing3 leftobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not leavepastHeGreecevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greece=Theme

Option 2

He lived to 100

nsubjcaseoblrootHePRONlivedVERBtoADP100NUM
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 livednsubj
2livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_4 100case
4100100NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 livedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livepastHeto 100vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He died young, at 32

nsubjxcomppunctcaseoblrootHePRONdiedVERByoungADJ,PUNCTatADP32NUM
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 diednsubj
2dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3youngyoungADJDegree=Pos2 diedxcomp
4,,PUNCT_6 32punct
5atatADP_6 32case
63232NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 diedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1diepastHe32young propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

He was a Roman

nsubjcopdetrootHePRONwasAUXaDETRomanADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 Romannsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 Romancop
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 Romandet
4RomanromanADJDegree=Posrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastHeroman propertytree 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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