Test 11 · Castles, knights and cathedrals
In Europa Universalis your army is mostly knights in 1337. What did real knights need that made them rare?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: army, real knights · What happens: be, need, make · To what, where: knights, 1337
This is test 11 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
Sentence 1: In Europa Universalis your army is mostly knights in 1337.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Europa | case |
| 2 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 army | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Universalis | Universalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Europa | flat |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 army | nmod:poss |
| 5 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knights | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 knights | cop |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 8 knights | advmod |
| 8 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1337 | case |
| 10 | 1337 | 1337 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 knights | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knights | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Europa's army | knights | 1337 | mostly property | tree rules |
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: What did real knights need that made them rare?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 made | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knights | amod |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | nsubj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past · do-support | real knights | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | make | past | knights = knight | rare property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A cannon of their own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cannon | det |
| 2 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 own | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 own | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cannon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Permission from the Pope each day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Pope | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Pope | det |
| 4 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Permission | nmod |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Pope | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Lots of money for horses and armour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 money | case |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lots | nmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 horses | case |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 money | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 armour | cc |
| 7 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horses | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A university degree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 degree | det |
| 2 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 degree | compound |
| 3 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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