Test 7 · ★ · The first farms and towns

Why did the people of Stonehenge care about midsummer and midwinter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: care

This is test 7 · ★ 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	7 care	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 care	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 care	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Stonehenge	case
6	Stonehenge	Stonehenge	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
7	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 midsummer	case
9	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 care	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 midwinter	cc
11	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 midsummer	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	past · do-support	the people of Stonehenge					about midsummer and midwinter	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about midsummer=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

They used the stones as a clock for school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stones	det
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 clock	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clock	det
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	They	the stones				as a clock; for school	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent stone=Duration as clock=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The seasons mattered for farming and festivals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seasons	det
2	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mattered	nsubj
3	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 farming	case
5	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mattered	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 festivals	cc
7	festivals	festival	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 farming	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	past	the seasons					for farming and festivals	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

The stones told them when the bus came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stones	det
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the stones		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	come	past	the bus						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They needed to know when to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needed	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fly	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	need	past	They	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	fly	to-infinitive		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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