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Test 2 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

In a game a plague doctor with a beaked mask walks around in 1348. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plague doctor · What happens: beak, walk around, be · To what, where: game

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a game a plague doctor with a beaked mask walks around in 1348.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walks	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
5	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doctor	compound
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walks	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 mask	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mask	det
9	beaked	beak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mask	amod
10	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doctor	nmod
11	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	around	around	ADV	_	11 walks	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1348	case
14	1348	1348	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 walks	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 walks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beak	participle							tree rules
2	walk around	present	a plague doctor with a beaked mask			a game		in 1348; around property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Trajectory

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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

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

That mask comes from a later plague in the 1600s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 mask	det
2	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 plague	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plague	det
6	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 plague	amod
7	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 1600s	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 1600s	det
10	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	7 plague	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	that mask			a later plague in the 1600s			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from plague=Initial_Location

Option 2

Masks were invented in 2020

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Masks	mask	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invented	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 2020	case
5	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Masks		2020			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3

Doctors did not exist in 1348

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exist	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 exist	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 exist	advmod
4	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1348	case
6	1348	1348	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 exist	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past · do-support	Doctors			1348			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1348=Location

Option 4

Nothing, they wore it from the start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 wore	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	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 wore	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 start	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 start	det
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Nothing	it		the start			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from start=Source

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