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Test 5 · ★ · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

A cartoon shows medieval Africa as only jungle with no towns. What should you put right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, you · What happens: show, put · To what, where: medieval Africa

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon shows medieval Africa as only jungle with no towns.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	medieval	medieval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Africa	amod
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 jungle	case
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 jungle	advmod
8	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 towns	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 towns	det
11	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 jungle	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon		medieval Africa			as jungle with no towns	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent africa=Recipient

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 should you put right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 put	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	should	you					right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Goal

The options

Option 1

Only Europeans built cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 built	advmod
2	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Europeans	cities					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Product

Option 2

Africa had no people then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Africa	no people			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Africa had rich kingdoms like Mali and cities with libraries like Timbuktu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kingdoms	amod
4	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Mali	case
6	Mali	Mali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kingdoms	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cities	cc
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Mali	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 libraries	case
10	libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 Timbuktu	case
12	Timbuktu	Timbuktu	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 libraries	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Africa	rich kingdoms				like Mali and cities; with libraries like Timbuktu	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient

Option 4

It is completely accurate

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	4 accurate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accurate	cop
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 accurate	advmod
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					accurate, completely property	tree rules

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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