Test 10 · ★★ · The Maya

Why was the shadow snake at Chichen Itza clever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow snake · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The Maya» 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=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snake	compound
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Chichen	case
7	Chichen	Chichen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 snake	appos
8	Itza	Itza	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Chichen	flat
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Chichen	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shadow snake					why property	tree rules

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

It was a real snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snake	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snake	amod
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a real snake					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It showed how well the Maya knew the sun's movements

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 knew	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Maya	det
6	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 showed	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 movements	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 sun	case
11	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	It			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	past	the Maya	the sun's movements	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus
3	move		the sun			nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It was made by Spanish priests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 priests	case
5	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 priests	amod
6	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	Spanish priests	It					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 4

It was painted on every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 painted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 painted	aux:pass
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		It			day		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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