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Test 8 · ★★ · The Maya

Long droughts hit a big city with too many people. What lesson does the Maya story teach?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Long droughts, lesson · What happens: hit, do · To what, where: big city, Maya story teach

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Long droughts hit a big city with too many people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 droughts	amod
2	droughts	drought	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 city	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 city	amod
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 people	case
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hit	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Long droughts	a big city				with many people	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent city=Patient with people=Instrument

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 lesson does the Maya story teach?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 lesson	det
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teach	det
5	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 teach	compound
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teach	compound
7	teach	teach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	what lesson	the Maya story teach					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teach=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Build taller pyramids and pray harder to the rain god

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pyramids	amod
3	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Build	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pray	cc
5	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Build	conj
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 pray	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 god	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 god	det
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 god	compound
10	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	imperative	you not said here	taller pyramids					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pyramid=Product
2	pray	present	you not said here					hard property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Never play ball games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 play	advmod
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 games	compound
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	imperative	you not said here	ball games					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Look after the land and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 land	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here				after the land and water		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Burn more books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 books	amod
3	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	more books					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent book=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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