Test 9 · ★★ · The Mongols

Why did Mongol children learn to ride at three or four?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mongol children · What happens: do, learn, ride · To what, where: three

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mongol	mongol	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learn	nsubj
5	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ride	mark
7	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learn	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 three	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ride	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 four	cc
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 three	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	present	Mongol children		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ride	to-infinitive	Mongol children not said here	three	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was a Chinese custom

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	5 custom	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 custom	det
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 custom	amod
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a Chinese custom					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their whole way of life on the steppe depended on horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 depended	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 life	case
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 steppe	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 steppe	det
8	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 life	nmod
9	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 horses	case
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 depended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	past	Their whole way of life on the steppe					on horses	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on horse=Theme

Option 3

Horses were their only toys by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 toys	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 toys	cop
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 toys	nmod:poss
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 toys	advmod
5	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 law	case
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toys	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Horses	Horses's toys				by law	tree rules

Option 4

They had no legs strong enough to walk

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 legs	det
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legs	amod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 strong	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	walk	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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