Test 8 · ★★★ · The age of science

Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Marie, that · What happens: win, show · To what, where: Nobel Prizes, two different sciences

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 29 «The age of science» 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: Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
2	Curie	Curie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Marie	flat
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Prizes	compound
5	Prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 won	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 sciences	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sciences	nummod
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sciences	amod
9	sciences	science	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 won	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	Marie	Nobel Prizes		two different sciences			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=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 does that show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	that						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Great discoveries can come from anyone, and she was the first to win two

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 discoveries	amod
2	discoveries	discovery	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 first	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 first	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 first	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 first	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 first	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 come	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 win	mark
14	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 first	advcl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	can	Great discoveries		anyone		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from anyone=Initial_Location
2	is	past	she			first property	tree rules
3	win	to-infinitive	she not said here	two			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality

Option 2

Women were only allowed one science

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 science	nummod
6	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	past · passive		Women					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal science=Theme

Option 3

She bought the prizes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prizes	det
4	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	She	the prizes					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme

Option 4

Prizes were given out to everybody who did science then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 given	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 everybody	case
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 given	obl:agent
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everybody	acl:relcl
9	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give out	past · passive	everybody	Prizes					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	do	past		science			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent science=Eventuality

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