Test 1 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

rhyme ring a ring o roses = plague song, everyone knows that

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rhyme, everyone · What happens: r, know · To what, where: ring, that

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	ring	r	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 rhyme	acl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ring	obj
5	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 roses	case
6	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ring	obl
7	=	=	SYM	_	9 song	punct
8	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 song	compound
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rhyme	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 rhyme	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	r	gerund	rhyme and plague song not said here	a ring				of roses	tree rules
2	know	present	everyone	that					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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

No, it is about the Hundred Years' War

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 War	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 War	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 War	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	10 War	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Years	det
7	Hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Years	nummod
8	Years	Year	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 War	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 Years	case
10	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					about the Hundred Years's War	tree rules

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

Probably not, it was written down hundreds of years later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	6 written	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 written	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 written	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 written	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 written	aux:pass
6	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 written	compound:prt
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 later	obl:unmarked
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hundreds	nmod
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 written	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not write down	past · passive		it				late, probably property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Yes, the Black Death was named after it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 named	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Death	det
4	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Death	amod
5	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 named	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 named	aux:pass
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the Black Death			after it		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Yes, it was sung by plague doctors in 1347 as a warning to all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sung	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sung	aux:pass
5	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 doctors	case
7	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doctors	compound
8	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sung	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1347	case
10	1347	1347	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 sung	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 warning	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 warning	det
13	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sung	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 warning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · passive	plague doctors	it		1347		as a warning to all	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme

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