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Test 2 · ★★ · The Maya

A documentary says the Maya vanished without a trace. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: documentary, Maya · What happens: say, vanish, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A documentary says the Maya vanished without a trace.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 documentary	det
2	documentary	documentary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Maya	det
5	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 vanished	nsubj
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 trace	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trace	det
9	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanished	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a documentary						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	vanish	past	the Maya					without a trace	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They became Vikings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	They						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Millions of Maya people still live there today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
3	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	compound
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Millions	nmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 live	advmod
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 live	advmod
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Millions of Maya people			there	still; today		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, they are all gone and nobody speaks Maya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 gone	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 speaks	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 speaks	nsubj
9	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	conj
10	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 speaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					all, gone property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present	nobody	Maya					tree rules

Option 4

They moved to the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	They					to the Moon result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moon=Result

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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