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Test 10 · ★★ · The Mongols

A friend says the Mongols could not take walled cities, they only fought in fields. What do you say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, Mongols, you · What happens: say, not take, wall, fight · To what, where: walled cities, fields · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 23 «The Mongols» 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 friend says the Mongols could not take walled cities, they only fought in fields.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mongols	det
5	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 take	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 take	advmod
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cities	amod
10	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fought	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fought	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 fought	advmod
14	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 fields	case
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fought	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not take	could	the Mongols	walled cities					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
3	wall	participle							tree rules
4	fight	past	Mongols = mongol			fields			vn battle-36.4-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What do you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Right, they never even tried to attack a city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 tried	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 tried	advmod
6	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 attack	mark
8	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 city	det
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not try	participle	they						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	attack not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	a city					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They could, using Chinese and Persian engineers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 using	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 using	aux
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 using	punct
4	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 engineers	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Persian	cc
7	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Chinese	conj
8	engineers	engineer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	could	They	Chinese engineers					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engineer=Patient

Option 3

Right, they had no weapons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 weapons	det
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

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

Option 4

They only fought at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fought	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 fought	advmod
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	They			sea			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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