Test 6 · ★ · The first farms and towns

dad says bronze came before stone tools lol. is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, bronze · What happens: say, come, be · To what, where: stone tools · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 tools	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tools	compound
7	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 right	nsubj
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	dad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	bronze	stone tools		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before tool=Location
3	is	present	bronze		right 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 · ✓ the right answer

No, stone tools came long before bronze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tools	compound
4	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 came	advmod
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 bronze	case
8	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	stone tools			bronze		long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before bronze=Location

Option 2

Yes, bronze is the oldest material people used

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 material	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 material	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 material	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 material	det
6	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 material	amod
7	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 material	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bronze	the oldest material					tree rules
2	use	past	people	the oldest material not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient

Option 3

No, iron came before both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 came	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	iron					before property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, people started with metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 started	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 metal	case
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	people					with metal	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with metal=Subeventuality

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