Test 5 · ★ · The first farms and towns

Why would a stone wall around Jericho be useful?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone wall · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 useful	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 useful	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wall	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	compound
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useful	nsubj
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 Jericho	case
7	Jericho	Jericho	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wall	nmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 useful	cop
9	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	a stone wall around Jericho					useful property	tree rules

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

To hold up the roofs of the houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hold	mark
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 hold	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roofs	det
5	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hold	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 houses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 houses	det
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roofs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	to-infinitive		the roofs of the houses					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot roof=Theme

Option 2

To keep the sea out of the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 town	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the sea		the town			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sea=Theme out town=Location

Option 3

To mark a football pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 mark	mark
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pitch	det
4	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pitch	compound
5	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	to-infinitive		a football pitch					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent pitch=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To protect the town and its stored food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 food	cc
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
7	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 town	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive		the town and its stored food					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Beneficiary
2	store	participle							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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