Test 10 · ★ · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

why'd everyone go to baghdad back then, nothing to do there surely

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: go back, do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 22 «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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	4 go	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 baghdad	case
6	baghdad	baghdad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 go	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 do	advmod
14	surely	surely	ADV	_	12 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	infinitive	everyone				then	to baghdad result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to baghdad=Result
2	do	to-infinitive	everyone not said here			there		surely property	vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

It was a small fishing village on a muddy river bank

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	6 village	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 village	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 village	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 village	amod
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 village	compound
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 bank	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bank	det
9	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bank	amod
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bank	compound
11	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 village	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a small fishing village		a muddy river bank			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was a huge city of trade, science and books

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	5 city	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 city	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 city	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 trade	case
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 city	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 science	punct
9	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 city	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 books	cc
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 city	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a huge city and science and books				of trade	tree rules

Option 3

It was only a castle for knights

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	5 castle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 castle	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 castle	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 knights	case
7	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 castle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a castle				for knights	tree rules

Option 4

Nobody went there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Nobody			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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