Test 7 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

When people get scared of a new disease and blame a whole group, what does history teach?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, you, history · What happens: get, blame, teach · To what, where: whole group

This is test 7 · ★ 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 get	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blame	advcl
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 disease	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 disease	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 disease	amod
8	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blame	cc
10	blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 group	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 group	amod
13	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blame	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 teach	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 teach	obj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 teach	aux
17	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 teach	nsubj
18	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 group	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 blame	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	people		scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	blame	imperative	you not said here	a whole group		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme
3	teach speech: other	present · do-support	history	a whole group		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

It is always the group's fault

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	7 fault	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fault	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 fault	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 group	det
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fault	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 group	case
7	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the group's fault				always property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fear can make people cruel to innocent neighbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 neighbours	case
7	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 neighbours	amod
8	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cruel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	Fear	people				cruel property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Option 4

Blaming one group of people is a good way to stop a disease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 way	csubj
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 group	nummod
3	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blaming	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 group	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 disease	det
13	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	blame	gerund		one group of people	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme
2	is a	present	Blaming	a good way	tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive		a disease	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality disease=Eventuality

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