Test 8 · ★ · The first farms and towns
Two villages have dogs, sheep and cattle. Which animal did their great-great ancestors tame first, before farming?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two villages, animal, great great ancestors · What happens: have, do, tame, farm · To what, where: dogs
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Two villages have dogs, sheep and cattle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 villages | nummod |
| 2 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sheep | punct |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dogs | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cattle | cc |
| 8 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dogs | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Two villages | dogs and sheep and cattle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
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 animal did their great-great ancestors tame first, before farming?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ancestors | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ancestors | amod |
| 8 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tame | nsubj |
| 9 | tame | tame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 tame | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 farming | punct |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 farming | mark |
| 13 | farming | farm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 did | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which animal | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tame | present | cattle's great great ancestors | first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | farm | gerund | which animal not said here | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The sheep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sheep | det |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The cattle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cattle | det |
| 2 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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