Test 3 · ★★ · The Mongols
A Mongol rider and a knight in heavy armour both set off on a 100 km journey. Who probably arrives first?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: set off, arrive · To what, where: Mongol rider, km journey
This is test 3 · ★★ 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 Mongol rider and a knight in heavy armour both set off on a 100 km journey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rider | det |
| 2 | Mongol | mongol | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rider | amod |
| 3 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knight | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rider | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 armour | case |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 armour | amod |
| 9 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knight | nmod |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 journey | det |
| 15 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 km | nummod |
| 16 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 journey | compound |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past · passive | a Mongol rider and a knight in heavy armour | a km journey | both property | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: Who probably arrives first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 arrives | nsubj |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 arrives | advmod |
| 3 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 arrives | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | first, probably property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
They arrive together
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 | 2 arrive | nsubj |
| 2 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 arrive | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | They | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Neither, horses cannot go 100 km
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 km | nummod |
| 8 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | can | horses | 100 km | neither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The knight, because armour is faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faster | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 knight | punct |
| 4 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 armour | case |
| 5 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 faster | cop |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the knight because armour | fast property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Mongol, swapping to fresh horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mongol | det |
| 2 | Mongol | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swapping | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mongol | punct |
| 4 | swapping | swap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 horses | case |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horses | amod |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swapping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | gerund | the Mongol | to fresh horses | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
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