Test 1 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings

cartoon vikings all have horns on their helmets. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon vikings · What happens: have · To what, where: horns, helmets

This is test 1 of lesson 20 «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» 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	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vikings	compound
2	vikings	viking	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 helmets	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 helmets	nmod:poss
8	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horns	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	4 have	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	cartoon vikings	horns		vikings's helmets		all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, that came from opera costumes in the 1800s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 costumes	case
6	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 costumes	compound
7	costumes	costume	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 1800s	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 1800s	det
10	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	that			opera costumes		in the 1800s	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from costume=Initial_Location

Option 2

No, they wore crowns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	they	crowns					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only on Sundays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Sundays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Sundays	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Sundays	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Sundays	case
6	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, every Viking wore them, even in battle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Viking	det
4	Viking	viking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	nsubj
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wore	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 battle	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 battle	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 battle	case
10	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	every Viking	them = they		battle			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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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