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Test 2 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings

Bro says the Middle Ages were dark and stupid, nothing happened. Fair?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro, Middle Ages, nothing · What happens: say, be, happen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: Bro says the Middle Ages were dark and stupid, nothing happened.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ages	det
4	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ages	flat
5	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 dark	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	cop
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stupid	cc
9	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dark	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 happened	punct
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 happened	nsubj
12	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Bro						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Middle Ages					dark property	tree rules
3	be		the Middle Ages not said here						tree rules
4	happen	past	nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Fair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fair	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yes, people forgot how to talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 talk	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 talk	mark
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forgot	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	people						tree rules
2	not talk	to-infinitive	people not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, because it was the Stone Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 Age	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Age	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 Age	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Age	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Age	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Age	det
7	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Age	compound
8	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the Stone Age					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, nobody built anything for a thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 built	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thousand	det
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	nobody	anything			year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they built cathedrals, universities and inventions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cathedrals	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 universities	punct
7	universities	university	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cathedrals	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 inventions	cc
9	inventions	invention	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cathedrals	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	they	cathedrals and universities and inventions					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cathedral=Product

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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