Test 9 · Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation

Why did so many more people learn to read after printing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: many more people · What happens: learn, read, print

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 many	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learn	nsubj
7	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 read	mark
9	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 learn	xcomp
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 printing	mark
11	printing	print	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 read	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	learn	present	many more people	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	to-infinitive	many more people not said here	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	print	gerund	many more people not said here	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Schools were banned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive		Schools					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Reading was made easier by the Pope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 made	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Pope	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pope	det
7	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	the Pope	Reading				easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

Option 3

Everyone was given a free computer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 given	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 computer	det
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 computer	amod
6	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Everyone					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient computer=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Books became cheap and easy to get

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 easy	cc
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cheap	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Books					cheap property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	get	to-infinitive	Books not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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