Test 2 · ★★ · The Mongols

Why would letting everyone keep their own religion help the Mongols rule?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: let, keep, help · To what, where: everyone, own religion, Mongols rule

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 letting	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 letting	aux
3	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 help	nsubj
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 letting	obj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 letting	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 religion	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 religion	amod
8	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
9	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rule	det
11	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 rule	compound
12	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 help	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	would		everyone	tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	everyone not said here	their own religion	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Theme
3	help	present		the Mongols rule	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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 doubled the gold in the empire

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 doubled	nsubj
2	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubled	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 empire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 empire	det
7	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	past	It	the gold		the empire			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gold=Patient

Option 2

It made the horses faster

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	the horses				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material horse=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Peoples were less likely to rebel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 likely	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rebel	mark
6	rebel	rebel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peoples					less, likely property	tree rules
2	rebel	to-infinitive	Peoples not said here						vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The Mongols had no army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mongols	det
2	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 army	det
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

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

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