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Test 6 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings

Europa Universalis 5 starts in 1337. Why are there no Viking raids in it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Europa, Viking raids · What happens: start, be · To what, where: 1337

This is test 6 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: Europa Universalis 5 starts in 1337.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 starts	nsubj
2	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europa	flat
3	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Europa	flat
4	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1337	case
6	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 starts	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 starts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Europa			1337			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: Why are there no Viking raids in it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 there	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 there	cop
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 raids	det
5	Viking	viking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raids	compound
6	raids	raid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 there	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 raids	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no Viking raids in it					there property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Vikings were too far away to fit on the map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 away	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fit	mark
7	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 away	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 map	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 map	det
10	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Vikings					away, far property	tree rules
2	fit	to-infinitive	Vikings not said here			the map			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on map=Trajectory

Option 2

Vikings only started in 1500

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 started	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 started	advmod
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1500	case
5	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	Vikings			1500			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

The game forgot them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the game	them = they					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Viking Age had ended in the 1000s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Age	det
2	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Age	compound
3	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ended	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ended	aux
5	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 1000s	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 1000s	det
8	1000s	1000	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	5 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past · perfect	the Viking Age			the 1000s			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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