Test 6 · ★ · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world
You look up at the star Betelgeuse. Where does its name come from?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, name, star · What happens: look up, come, name
This is test 6 · ★ 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: You look up at the star Betelgeuse.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 look | compound:prt |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 star | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 star | det |
| 6 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 7 | Betelgeuse | Betelgeuse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 star | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | present | You | at the star | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme |
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: Where does its name come from?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 come | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · do-support | star's name | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | name | star | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1
Latin, from the Roman soldiers who watched the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Latin | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 soldiers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldiers | det |
| 5 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 soldiers | amod |
| 6 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watched | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 watched | nsubj |
| 8 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watched | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Latin | the sky | the Roman soldiers | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Arabic, from medieval astronomers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 astronomers | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 astronomers | case |
| 4 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 astronomers | amod |
| 5 | astronomers | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Arabic | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Chinese, from Kublai Khan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kublai | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Kublai | case |
| 4 | Kublai | Kublai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chinese | conj |
| 5 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kublai | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
English, from Shakespeare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Shakespeare | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Shakespeare | case |
| 4 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 English | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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