Test 5 · Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation

What would Luther's ideas have done without the printing press?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: ideas

This is test 5 of lesson 25 «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 done	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux
3	Luther	Luther	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ideas	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Luther	case
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 done	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	without	without	ADP	_	11 press	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 press	det
10	printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 press	compound
11	press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 done	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would · perfect · passive		Luther's ideas				without the printing press	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 · ← Mova's choice

Spread even faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 faster	advmod
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Spread	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Stopped the Renaissance from ever happening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Renaissance	det
3	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Stopped	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 happening	mark
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 happening	advmod
6	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stopped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past		the Renaissance					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality renaissance=Eventuality
2	happen	gerund					ever		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Spread far more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Spread	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Spread	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here					slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Turned into Latin by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	3 Latin	case
3	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 magic	case
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle				Latin		by magic	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into latin=Source by magic=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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