Test 2 · ★★★ · The Aztecs and the Inca

Why were native peoples willing to help Cortés against the Aztecs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: native peoples · What happens: be, help · To what, where: Cortés

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 willing	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 willing	cop
3	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peoples	amod
4	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 willing	nsubj
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	xcomp
8	Cortés	Cortés	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 help	obj
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 Aztecs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Aztecs	det
11	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 help	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 willing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	native peoples					willing property	tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive	native peoples not said here		Cortés			against the Aztecs	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cortés=Beneficiary

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

They thought Cortés was their king and had come home at last

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Cortés	Cortés	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 king	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 king	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 king	nmod:poss
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Cortés	their king			tree rules
3	come	past · perfect	They not said here		last	home property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location

Option 2

They were paid in chocolate and gold

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	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chocolate	case
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gold	cc
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chocolate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive		They		chocolate and gold			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They hated the Aztecs' sacrifices and tribute

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	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Aztecs	det
4	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 sacrifices	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Aztecs	case
6	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hated	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tribute	cc
8	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sacrifices	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	They	the Aztecs's sacrifices and tribute					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sacrifice=Stimulus
2	sacrifice		the Aztecs						nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They wanted to move to 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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 move	mark
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Spain	case
6	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	move not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here		Spain				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spain=Result

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