Test 4 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

Why is the Hundred Years' War a funny name?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: War · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Years	det
4	Hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Years	nummod
5	Years	Year	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 War	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Years	case
7	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 name	det
9	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 name	amod
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

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

It happened in 100 BC

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	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 BC	case
4	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 BC	nummod
5	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It			100 BC			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bc=Location

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

It actually lasted 116 years

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	3 lasted	nsubj
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 lasted	advmod
3	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	116	116	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lasted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				year	actually property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nobody really fought in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fought	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 fought	advmod
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Nobody			it			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It lasted only one single day

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	2 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lasted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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