Test 9 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings

Why is Lindisfarne in 793 remembered?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lindisfarne · What happens: be, remember · To what, where: Lindisfarne, 793

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 remembered	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Lindisfarne	cop
3	Lindisfarne	Lindisfarne	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 remembered	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 793	case
5	793	793	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Lindisfarne	nmod
6	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 remembered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Lindisfarne		793			tree rules
2	remember	participle	Lindisfarne						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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.

The options

Option 1

The Normans were born there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Normans	det
2	Normans	Norman	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 born	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		the Normans		there			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It was the end of the Roman Empire in the west

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 end	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 end	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Empire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Empire	det
7	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Empire	compound
8	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 west	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 west	det
11	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the end		the west		of the Roman Empire	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is often called the start of the Viking Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 start	det
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Age	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Age	det
9	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Age	compound
10	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		It				often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	start			the Viking Age					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Columbus landed there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 landed	nsubj
2	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 landed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	Columbus			there			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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