Test 9 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

Why did the Olympics pause wars?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Olympics pause wars

This is test 9 · ★ 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wars	det
4	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 wars	compound
5	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wars	compound
6	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Olympics pause wars					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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

Because all the soldiers were running in the races

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 running	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 soldiers	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 running	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 running	aux
6	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 races	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 races	det
9	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	all soldiers			the races			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Trajectory

Option 2

Because Zeus banned swords for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 banned	mark
2	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 banned	nsubj
3	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past	Zeus	swords					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sword=Theme

Option 3

Because it was winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 winter	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 winter	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 winter	cop
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					because winter	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So athletes and fans could travel safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 travel	advmod
2	athletes	athlete	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 travel	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fans	cc
4	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 athletes	conj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 travel	aux
6	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	safely	safely	ADV	_	6 travel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	could	athletes and fans					safely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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