Test 5 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings
You say "egg", "knife" and "sky" at breakfast. Who gave English those words?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: say, give · To what, where: egg, breakfast, words, English · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: You say "egg", "knife" and "sky" at breakfast.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 egg | punct |
| 4 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 egg | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knife | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 knife | punct |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 egg | conj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 knife | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sky | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sky | punct |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 egg | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 egg | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 breakfast | case |
| 15 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | You | egg and knife and sky | breakfast | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent egg=Topic |
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 gave English those words?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | that words | English | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent english=Recipient word=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The Romans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Romans | det |
| 2 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Norse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Norse | det |
| 2 | Norse | norse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Aztecs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Aztecs | det |
| 2 | Aztecs | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The Greeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Greeks | det |
| 2 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 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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