Test 10 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires
My teacher said, no wait, she said Babylon was in Egypt. Where was it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, Babylon, wait · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wait, Egypt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 4 «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» 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 teacher said, no wait, she said Babylon was in Egypt.
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 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 wait | det |
| 6 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 10 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Egypt | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Egypt | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Egypt | case |
| 13 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My teacher | no wait | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Babylon | Egypt | 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: Where was it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wait | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
In China by the Yellow River
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 China | case |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 River | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 River | det |
| 5 | Yellow | Yellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 River | compound |
| 6 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 China | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
In Mesopotamia, in today's Iraq
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Mesopotamia | case |
| 2 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Iraq | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Iraq | case |
| 5 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Iraq | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 today | case |
| 7 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mesopotamia | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In Egypt by the Nile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Egypt | case |
| 2 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Nile | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Nile | det |
| 5 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Egypt | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In Greece by the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Greece | case |
| 2 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Greece | 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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