Test 6 · ★★★ · The Aztecs and the Inca

Why did Machu Picchu survive so well?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Machu · What happens: survive

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 survive	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 survive	aux
3	Machu	Machu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 survive	nsubj
4	Picchu	Picchu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Machu	flat
5	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 survive	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past · do-support	Machu					well property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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

It is hidden deep underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux:pass
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	deep	deep	ADV	_	5 underground	advmod
5	underground	underground	ADV	_	3 hidden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · passive		It				underground property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It was made of plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 plastic	case
5	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It				of plastic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

The Spanish rebuilt it stone by stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Spanish	det
2	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rebuilt	nsubj
3	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rebuilt	obj
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rebuilt	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 stone	case
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rebuilt	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Spanish never found it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Spanish	det
2	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	past	the Spanish	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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