Test 6 · ★★ · The Maya
Why might a farmer care about an accurate calendar?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗
This is test 6 · ★★ 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=Int | 5 care | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 care | det |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 care | amod |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 calendar | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 calendar | det |
| 8 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 calendar | amod |
| 9 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 care | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
To know exactly when the next bus comes past the farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 know | mark |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 know | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 comes | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bus | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bus | amod |
| 7 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | advcl |
| 9 | past | past | ADP | _ | 11 farm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farm | det |
| 11 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | exactly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come | present | the next bus | the farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past farm=Initial_Location |
Option 2
To pay his phone bill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 pay | mark |
| 2 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bill | nmod:poss |
| 4 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bill | compound |
| 5 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | to-infinitive | his phone bill | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset | |||||
| 2 | bill | his = he | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
To know when to plant and harvest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 know | mark |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 plant | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 plant | mark |
| 5 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 harvest | cc |
| 7 | harvest | harvest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 plant | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | plant | to-infinitive | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | harvest | infinitive | tree rules |
Option 4
To count his birthdays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 count | mark |
| 2 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 birthdays | nmod:poss |
| 4 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 count | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | to-infinitive | his birthdays | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme |
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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