Test 9 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

mate reckons peasants were lazy and just sat about. true or rubbish?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, peasants · What happens: reckon, be, sit about

This is test 9 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lazy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckons	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	conj
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckons	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 rubbish	cc
13	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 true	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	mate		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	peasants	lazy property	tree rules
3	sit about	past	peasants not said here	about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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

Rubbish, they all lived in castles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rubbish	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 lived	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 castles	case
7	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Rubbish			castles			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location

Option 2

True, they never worked a day in their lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worked	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worked	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 worked	advmod
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obl:unmarked
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 lives	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lives	nmod:poss
10	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	past	they				day	in their lives	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in life=Theme

Option 3

True, the knights did the farming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knights	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knights	det
4	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farming	det
7	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the True knights	the farming					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farming=Eventuality

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

Rubbish, they worked from sunrise to sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rubbish	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 sunrise	case
6	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 sunset	case
8	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	they	Rubbish			sunrise; sunset		vn employment-95.3 «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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