Test 9 · ★ · The first farms and towns

Why is bronze better than copper for tools?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bronze · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 better	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	nsubj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 copper	case
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 tools	case
8	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 copper	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bronze					than copper for tools; good 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

Bronze is lighter than air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lighter	cop
3	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 air	case
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bronze					than air; light property	tree rules

Option 2

Bronze never needs to be made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 needs	advmod
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 made	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	Bronze						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Bronze not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bronze is harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 harder	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harder	cop
3	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bronze					hard property	tree rules

Option 4

Bronze is softer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 softer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 softer	cop
3	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bronze					soft property	tree rules

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