Test 6 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

Why might powerful people have been upset by Socrates' questions?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: questions, Socrates · What happens: upset, question · To what, where: powerful people

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 upset	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 upset	aux
3	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 upset	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 upset	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 upset	aux:pass
7	upset	upset	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 questions	case
9	Socrates	Socrates	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 questions	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 Socrates	case
11	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 upset	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 upset	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	upset	might · perfect · passive	Socrates's questions	powerful people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	question		Socrates						nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

His questions showed they did not know as much as they thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 questions	nmod:poss
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 showed	ccomp
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 know	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 much	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	past	His questions		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	past · do-support	questions = question	much	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	questions = question		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	question		His = he		nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He shouted at them in the street

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 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	He			the street		at them = they	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He stole their money and their gold

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod:poss
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gold	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gold	nmod:poss
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He	their money and money's gold					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme

Option 4

He spoke only Persian, so nobody could understand him

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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 Persian	advmod
4	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoke	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 understand	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 understand	advmod
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 understand	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 understand	aux
9	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 spoke	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	He					persian property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	understand	could	nobody	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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