Test 7 · ★ · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

Why would cheap paper help learning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: learn

This is test 7 · ★ 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	6 learning	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learning	aux
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 help	amod
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	compound
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learning	compound
6	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 learning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would							vn learn-14-1 «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

Paper replaced teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 teachers	amod
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Paper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	replace	participle							vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Paper made people cleverer all by itself, without reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 itself	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 made	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reading	punct
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 reading	mark
10	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Paper	people				by Paper; clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
2	read	gerund	Paper not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Paper was used only for money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 money	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		Paper				for money	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for money=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More books could be made, so more people could read them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 books	amod
2	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 read	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 read	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 read	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 read	aux
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could · passive		More books					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	read	could	more people	books = book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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