Test 10 · ★ · The first farms and towns
Houses packed so tight you walk on roofs, about 9,000 years ago. Which town?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Houses · What happens: pack, walk · To what, where: Houses, roofs
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «The first farms and towns» 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: Houses packed so tight you walk on roofs, about 9,000 years ago.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Houses | acl |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 tight | advmod |
| 4 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 packed | xcomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 roofs | case |
| 8 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walk | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ago | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 9,000 | advmod |
| 11 | 9,000 | 9,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 walk | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | participle | Houses not said here | tight property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | present | Houses | roofs | ago property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Trajectory |
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: Which town?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 town | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Çatalhöyük in Turkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Çatalhöyük | Çatalhöyük | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Turkey | case |
| 3 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Çatalhöyük | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Uruk in Iraq
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uruk | Uruk | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Iraq | case |
| 3 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uruk | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Stonehenge in England
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stonehenge | Stonehenge | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 England | case |
| 3 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Stonehenge | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Jericho by the Jordan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jericho | Jericho | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 Jordan | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Jordan | det |
| 4 | Jordan | Jordan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jericho | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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