Test 9 · ★ · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

How did Ibn Battuta's book help historians today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: book · What happens: be, help · To what, where: historians

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 help	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 book	nmod:poss
4	Battuta	Battuta	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ibn	flat
5	's	's	PART	_	3 Ibn	case
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	nsubj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	obj
9	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						how property	tree rules
2	help	present	Ibn's book	historians			today		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent historian=Beneficiary

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 gave the rules of jousting 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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rules	det
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 jousting	mark
6	jousting	joust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rules	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 knights	case
8	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jousting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	It	the rules					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
2	joust	gerund	the rules not said here					for knights	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It was a map of the Moon

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 map	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 map	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 map	det
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 map	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a map				of the Moon	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It describes many lands of the medieval world he saw

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	2 describes	nsubj
2	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lands	amod
4	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 describes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	medieval	medieval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lands	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 world	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	It	many lands of the medieval world					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent land=Theme
2	see	past	he	the medieval world not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

Option 4

It was a book of sums and puzzles

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 book	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 book	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sums	case
6	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 book	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 puzzles	cc
8	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sums	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a book				of sums and puzzles	tree rules

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