Test 5 · ★★ · The Maya

If the Spanish had not burned the books, what would we probably know?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: not burn, know · To what, where: Spanish, books

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 burned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Spanish	det
3	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 burned	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burned	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 burned	advmod
6	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 books	det
8	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burned	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 know	obj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
13	probably	probably	ADV	_	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 books	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 burned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	past · perfect · passive		the Spanish					tree rules
2	know	would	we	the books				probably property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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

The exact date the world will end, written in the books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 date	det
2	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 date	amod
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 written	nsubj:pass
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 end	aux
7	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 date	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 written	punct
9	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 books	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 books	det
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	future	the world	the exact date not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality date=Eventuality
2	write	participle · passive		the exact date		the books			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination

Option 2

Nothing new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Less about the Maya than we know now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 Maya	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Maya	det
4	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Less	obl
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 know	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Less	advcl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	we				now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Much more about Maya history and beliefs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADV	_	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 history	case
4	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 history	compound
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 more	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beliefs	cc
7	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 history	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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