Test 7 · Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing
My cousin says Gilgamesh is a Marvel hero. What is he really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Gilgamesh · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Marvel hero · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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: My cousin says Gilgamesh is a Marvel hero.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hero | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hero | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hero | det |
| 7 | Marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hero | compound |
| 8 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | My cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Gilgamesh | a Marvel hero | 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.
Sentence 2: What is he really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Gilgamesh | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A Chinese inventor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 inventor | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 inventor | amod |
| 3 | inventor | inventor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A king in one of the oldest written stories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stories | det |
| 7 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 stories | amod |
| 8 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stories | amod |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A Roman emperor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 2 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 emperor | amod |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A Viking god of thunder with a magic hammer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 god | det |
| 2 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 god | compound |
| 3 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thunder | case |
| 5 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 god | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hammer | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hammer | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hammer | compound |
| 9 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 god | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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