Test 4 · ★★★ · The Aztecs and the Inca

If the Inca had had horses and wheels, what might have changed most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Inca, most · What happens: have, change · To what, where: horses

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Inca	det
3	Inca	Inca	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wheels	cc
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 horses	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 changed	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 changed	nsubj:pass
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 changed	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 changed	aux
13	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 horses	acl
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 changed	obl:agent
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	the Inca	horses and wheels					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	change	might · perfect · passive	most	horses and wheels					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 2

The colour of the llamas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 llamas	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 llamas	det
5	llamas	llama	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 colour	nmod

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

Option 3

The shape and size of Machu Picchu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shape	det
2	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 size	cc
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shape	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Machu	case
6	Machu	Machu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shape	nmod
7	Picchu	Picchu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Machu	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Travel and carrying on their roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 carrying	cc
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Travel	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 roads	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 roads	nmod:poss
6	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund				their roads			vn carry-11.4 «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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