Test 5 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

your castle in the game's got stone walls, its 1450 and the enemy's got cannons. you safe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: castle, enemy · What happens: get · To what, where: stone walls, cannons

This is test 5 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	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 castle	nmod:poss
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 game	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 castle	nmod
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walls	compound
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 1450	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 1450	nmod:poss
12	1450	1450	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 walls	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 enemy	det
15	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 got	aux
17	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 1450	conj
18	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 got	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 got	obl
21	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive	your castle in the game	stone walls				you obl; safe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Stimulus
2	get	present · passive	the enemy	cannons					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cannon=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not really, cannons can break even stone walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 break	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 break	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 break	aux
6	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 walls	advmod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walls	compound
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	can	cannons	stone walls					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Patient

Option 2

Totally safe, stone never breaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 safe	advmod
2	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 safe	punct
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 breaks	advmod
6	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break	present	safe stone						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Safe, cannons were only ever used on ships at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Safe	safe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cannons	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Safe	punct
3	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 used	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 used	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 used	advmod
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 used	advmod
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 ships	case
9	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 used	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 sea	case
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		Safe cannons		ships	ever	at sea	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yes, cannons were invented in 1900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 invented	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 invented	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invented	aux:pass
5	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1900	case
7	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		cannons		1900			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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