Test 4 · ★★ · The Maya
Imagine the Maya could pay for a hat with cacao beans. What were beans being used as?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Maya · What happens: imagine, pay, be, use · To what, where: beans
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Imagine the Maya could pay for a hat with cacao beans.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Maya | det |
| 3 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Imagine | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hat | det |
| 8 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 beans | case |
| 10 | cacao | cacao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beans | compound |
| 11 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pay | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pay | could | the Maya | for a hat; with cacao beans | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for hat=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 were beans being used as?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 beans | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beans | cop |
| 3 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 beans | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 used | case |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 beans | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | beans | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | use | gerund · passive | beans not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Medicine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Bricks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Toys for babies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 babies | case |
| 3 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Toys | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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