Test 5 · ★★★ · The Aztecs and the Inca

bro says some american found machu picchu in 1911 and nobody knew it before. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, nobody · What happens: say, find, know · To what, where: american, 1911, bro · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 american	det
4	american	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 found	obl:unmarked
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	ccomp
6	machu	machu	X	Foreign=Yes	5 found	obj
7	picchu	picchu	X	Foreign=Yes	6 machu	flat:foreign
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1911	case
9	1911	1911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 found	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	obj
14	before	before	ADV	_	12 knew	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
16	right	right	ADV	_	12 knew	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	bro				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	participle		some american	1911		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machu=Topic
3	know	past	nobody	bro		before, right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

Yes, nobody had ever seen it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 seen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	nobody	it			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, it was under the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 sea	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sea	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sea	cop
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			the sea			tree rules

Option 3

No, the Spanish found it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Spanish	det
4	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the Spanish	it				first property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, local people always knew it; 1911 made it world famous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 local	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knew	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 knew	advmod
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	1911	1911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	local people	it				always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	make	past	1911	it				famous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary world=Product

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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