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Test 6 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

A clay library survives 2,600 years but a paper one burns. Why does clay last?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: clay library, paper one, clay · What happens: survive, burn, last

This is test 6 · ★ 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: A clay library survives 2,600 years but a paper one burns.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 library	det
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 library	compound
3	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survives	nsubj
4	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	2,600	2,600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survives	obl:unmarked
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 burns	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	compound
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burns	nsubj
11	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 survives	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 survives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present	a clay library				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	present	a paper one						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Why does clay last?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 last	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 last	aux
3	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 last	nsubj
4	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present · do-support	clay						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

The options

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

Baked clay does not rot or burn away easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 clay	amod
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rot	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rot	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 rot	advmod
5	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 burn	cc
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rot	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 burn	advmod
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	7 burn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not rot	present · do-support	Baked clay						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	burn away	infinitive	Baked clay not said here					away, easily property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Clay floats on water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	Clay			water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory

Option 3

Paper was not allowed to be kept in libraries by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 kept	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 kept	aux:pass
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 allowed	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 libraries	case
9	libraries	library	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 law	case
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	past · passive		Paper					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	law			libraries			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in library=Location

Option 4

Clay is magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 magic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	cop
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Clay					magic property	tree rules

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