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Test 4 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

A lord's castle has plenty of water and food for a year. What would attackers most likely find?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: castle, attackers · What happens: have, find · To what, where: plenty

This is test 4 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: A lord's castle has plenty of water and food for a year.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lord	det
2	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 castle	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lord	case
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plenty	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 food	cc
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plenty	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a lord's castle	plenty of water and food for a year					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient

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 would attackers most likely find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 find	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
3	attackers	attacker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 find	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	attackers					likely property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The attackers would win at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 attackers	det
2	attackers	attacker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 win	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 win	aux
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	the attackers						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at once=Eventuality

Option 2

The castle would fall in one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	the castle				day		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A siege would take a very long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 siege	det
2	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	a siege				time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The castle would have to surrender at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 surrender	mark
6	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surrender	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the castle						tree rules
2	surrender	to-infinitive	the castle not said here				night		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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