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Test 5 · Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing

A school tablet 4,000 years old has a mistake on it. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school tablet, that · What happens: have, show · To what, where: mistake

This is test 5 of lesson 3 «Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing» 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: A school tablet 4,000 years old has a mistake on it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tablet	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tablet	compound
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
4	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tablet	amod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mistake	det
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mistake	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a school tablet	a mistake		mistake			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient

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

Writing was never taught to anyone, so they guessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 taught	advmod
4	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 taught	obl:agent
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guessed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 guessed	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 guessed	nsubj
10	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not teach speech: other	past · passive	anyone	Writing					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	guess	past	they						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Children learning to write made mistakes like us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learning	nsubj
2	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 write	mark
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learning	xcomp
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mistakes	amod
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 write	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund	Children						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	write	to-infinitive	Children not said here	made mistakes				like us	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme
3	make	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

The teacher could not write at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 write	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 write	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 write	advmod
5	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not write	could	the teacher			all			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Clay cannot hold writing well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hold	advmod
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hold	xcomp
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 writing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	can	Clay						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	write	gerund	Clay not said here					well property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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