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Test 10 · ★★★ · The Aztecs and the Inca

A game puts the Aztecs and the Inca right next to each other. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game · What happens: put, be · To what, where: Aztecs

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «The Aztecs and the Inca» 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: A game puts the Aztecs and the Inca right next to each other.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	nsubj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Aztecs	det
5	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 puts	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Inca	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Inca	det
8	Inca	Inca	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Aztecs	conj
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 next	advmod
10	next	next	ADV	_	3 puts	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 puts	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	a game		the Aztecs and the Inca			to each; next property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent aztec=Goal

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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They were both in Spain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Spain	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Spain	cop
3	both	both	ADV	_	5 Spain	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Spain	case
5	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			Spain		both property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Aztecs were in Mexico, the Inca far south in the Andes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Aztecs	det
2	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Mexico	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Mexico	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Mexico	case
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Inca	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Inca	det
8	Inca	Inca	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mexico	conj
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 south	advmod
10	south	south	ADV	_	8 Inca	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 Andes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Andes	det
13	Andes	Ande	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 Inca	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Aztecs			Mexico and the Inca in the Andes			tree rules

Option 3

They were in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Africa	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Africa	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Africa	case
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			Africa			tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, they were close neighbours and traded every week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 traded	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 neighbours	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 neighbours	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 neighbours	cop
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 neighbours	amod
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 neighbours	cc
8	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traded	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	close neighbours					tree rules
2	trade	past	Nothing				week		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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