Test 5 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

If Athenians feared a politician might make himself king, what could they do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Athenians, politician · What happens: fear, make, do · To what, where: politician, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 feared	mark
2	Athenians	Athenian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 politician	det
5	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feared	ccomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 make	obj
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 do	obj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 king	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fear	past	Athenians		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	might	a politician	politician	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary king=Product
3	do	could	Athenians = athenian	king	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Make him their king at once, to keep the peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 king	nmod:poss
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Make	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peace	det
11	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	their king	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary king=Product
2	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	the peace					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, voting was banned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 voting	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 banned	aux:pass
5	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive		Nothing voting					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Give him an olive crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crown	det
4	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crown	amod
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a olive crown	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient crown=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Vote to ostracise him for ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 ostracise	mark
3	ostracise	ostracise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Vote	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ostracise	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ostracise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	ostracise	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he			year		tree rules

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