Test 10 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

bloody plague, why didnt they just use medicine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: use · To what, where: medicine

This is test 10 · ★ 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	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plague	amod
2	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 didnt	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 didnt	advmod
5	didnt	didnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plague	appos
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 use	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 use	advmod
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 didnt	acl:relcl
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 plague	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	they	medicine					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They did not know about germs, and their remedies mostly did not work

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	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 germs	case
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 work	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 remedies	nmod:poss
10	remedies	remedy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 work	nsubj
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	14 work	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 work	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 work	advmod
14	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	They	about germs	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about germ=Stimulus
2	not work	past · do-support	germs's remedies	mostly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remedy		germs = germ		nom remedy «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

They did, and their medicines worked perfectly every single time

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 worked	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 worked	cc
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 medicines	nmod:poss
6	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 worked	nsubj
7	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	7 worked	advmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	They			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work	past	their medicines	time	perfectly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	medicine		their = they			nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

They had modern pills but forgot how to use them

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	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pills	amod
4	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 forgot	cc
6	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 use	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 use	mark
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 forgot	xcomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	They	modern pills	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Patient
2	forget	past	They not said here		tree rules
3	not use	to-infinitive	They not said here	pills = pill	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Medicine was against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 law	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Medicine					against the law	tree rules

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