Test 5 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

Why might some historians doubt the Hanging Gardens were real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: historians, Hanging Gardens · What happens: doubt, be

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 doubt	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 doubt	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 historians	det
4	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 doubt	nsubj
5	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gardens	det
7	Hanging	Hanging	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Gardens	compound
8	Gardens	Garden	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 real	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 real	cop
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 doubt	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doubt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	might	some historians						vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Hanging Gardens					real property	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.

The options

Option 1

The gardens are still growing there today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardens	det
2	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 growing	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 growing	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 growing	advmod
5	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 growing	advmod
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · progressive	the gardens			there	still; today		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No clear remains have been found in Babylon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 remains	det
2	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remains	amod
3	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 found	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Babylon	case
8	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · perfect · passive		no clear remains		Babylon			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

Every writer of the time said they were fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 writer	det
2	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writer	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fake	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fake	cop
9	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	every writer of the time						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					fake property	tree rules

Option 4

They were found on the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		They		the moon			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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