Test 11 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings
A Norwegian king lost in England in 1066, then the Normans won. Who were the Normans?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Norwegian king · What happens: lose, win, be · To what, where: Norwegian king, England, Normans
This is test 11 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
Sentence 1: A Norwegian king lost in England in 1066, then the Normans won.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 won | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 England | case |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1066 | case |
| 8 | 1066 | 1066 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 lost | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 won | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 won | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Normans | det |
| 12 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 won | nsubj |
| 13 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 won | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | a Norwegian king not said here | England | in 1066 | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in england=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | win | past | a Norwegian king | then | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Who were the Normans?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 Normans | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Normans | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Normans | det |
| 4 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Normans | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Normans | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Greek sailors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sailors | amod |
| 2 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Inuit hunters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inuit | inuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunters | compound |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Roman soldiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soldiers | amod |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Descendants of Vikings in France
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Vikings | case |
| 3 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Descendants | nmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 France | case |
| 5 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Descendants | nmod |
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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