Test 5 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages
Your EU5 game starts in 1337. What real war begins that very year?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: EU5 game, real war · What happens: start, begin · To what, where: 1337
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Your EU5 game starts in 1337.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 game | nmod:poss |
| 2 | EU5 | EU5 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 game | compound |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1337 | case |
| 6 | 1337 | 1337 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 starts | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Your EU5 game | 1337 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 real war begins that very year?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 begins | obj |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 war | amod |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begins | nsubj |
| 4 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 year | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 year | advmod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begins | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 begins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | real war | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The First World War
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 War | det |
| 2 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 War | amod |
| 3 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 War | compound |
| 4 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Crusades
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crusades | det |
| 2 | Crusades | Crusade | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Viking raids on Lindisfarne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 raids | det |
| 2 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raids | compound |
| 3 | raids | raid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Lindisfarne | case |
| 5 | Lindisfarne | Lindisfarne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raids | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Hundred Years' War between England and France
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Years | det |
| 2 | Hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Years | nummod |
| 3 | Years | Year | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 War | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 Years | case |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 England | case |
| 7 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 France | cc |
| 9 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 England | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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