Test 10 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

Why might a town spend over a hundred years building one cathedral?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: town · What happens: spend, build · To what, where: one cathedral

This is test 10 of lesson 21 «Castles, knights and cathedrals» 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	5 spend	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spend	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spend	nsubj
5	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spend	obl
10	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spend	advcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 cathedral	nummod
12	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 building	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	might	a town				year		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	build	gerund	a town not said here	one cathedral					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cathedral=Product

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 plans were lost every year in fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plans	det
2	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 fires	case
8	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		the plans		fires	year		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

Stone could only be cut in the middle of winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 cut	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	aux:pass
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 winter	case
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	could · passive		Stone		the middle of winter			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Builders were paid only once a century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 once	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 century	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 century	det
7	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive		Builders			century		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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

It was huge, built by hand, and money came slowly

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	3 huge	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 huge	advcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	conj
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	It	huge property	tree rules
2	build	participle		by hand	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	come	past	money	slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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