Test 6 · ★★ · The Mongols

so marco polo made it ALL up yeah? total liar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: marco polo · What happens: make · To what, where: it

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
2	marco	marco	X	_	3 polo	compound
3	polo	polo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	ALL	all	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
10	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 liar	amod
11	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	marco polo	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary liar=Product

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

No, every word is proven true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 proven	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proven	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proven	aux:pass
6	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proven	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive		every word				true property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Yes, he never left his house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	past	he	his house					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 3

He was really a Mongol prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prince	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prince	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 prince	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prince	det
5	Mongol	mongol	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prince	amod
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a Mongol prince					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some parts are doubted, but he described many things accurately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 parts	det
2	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 doubted	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doubted	aux:pass
4	doubted	doubt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 described	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 described	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 described	nsubj
8	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doubted	parataxis
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 described	obj
11	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 described	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	present · passive		some parts					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	describe	past	he	many things				accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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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