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Test 7 · ★★ · The Mongols

In a strategy game the Mongols take a city that fought back. What did that really often mean for the people there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mongols, city, that · What happens: take, fight back, do, mean · To what, where: city, strategy game

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: In a strategy game the Mongols take a city that fought back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
3	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	compound
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mongols	det
6	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fought	nsubj
11	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 city	acl:relcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 fought	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	the Mongols	a city		a strategy game			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent city=Value in game=Location
2	fight back	past	a city						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 did that really often mean for the people there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 mean	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mean	obl
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mean	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	mean	present	that			there		for the people; often property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for people=Attribute

The options

Option 1

Everyone was given gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 given	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Everyone					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient gold=Theme

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

The city was destroyed and many people died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 destroyed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 destroyed	aux:pass
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 died	cc
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 destroyed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive		the city					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	die	past	many people						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

The people became Mongol generals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Mongol	mongol	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 generals	amod
5	generals	general	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the people	Mongol generals					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing happened to anyone in the city at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 anyone	case
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 happened	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anyone	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 city	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Nothing					to anyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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