Test 9 · ★★ · The Maya

Where does the rubber for the first bouncy balls come from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first bouncy balls · What happens: do, come · To what, where: rubber

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	conj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rubber	det
4	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 balls	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 balls	amod
8	bouncy	bouncy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 balls	amod
9	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rubber	advcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	10 come	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the rubber					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubber=Eventuality
2	come	present	the first bouncy balls						vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Silkworms in China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 China	case
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Silkworms	nmod

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

Option 2

Oil wells in Europe dug in the Middle Ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wells	compound
2	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dug	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Europe	case
4	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wells	nmod
5	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Ages	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ages	det
8	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ages	flat
9	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	Oil wells in Europe				in the Middle Ages		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in age=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tree sap, discovered by Native Americans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sap	compound
2	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 discovered	punct
4	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sap	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Americans	case
6	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Americans	amod
7	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 discovered	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	participle		Tree sap not said here					vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Volcano rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rocks	compound
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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