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Test 7 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

Babylon has grain but no timber for roofs. What does it do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Babylon, timber · What happens: have, do · To what, where: grain

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Babylon has grain but no timber for roofs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 timber	cc
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 timber	det
6	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grain	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 roofs	case
8	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 timber	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Babylon	grain but no timber for roofs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=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 it do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	timber						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Builds roofs out of grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Builds	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 grain	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 grain	case
5	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Builds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present		roofs		grain			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roof=Product

Option 2

Stops building houses at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stops	stop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stops	acl
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 building	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 building	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	gerund	Stops not said here	houses		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Trades grain and cloth for timber from afar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trades	trade	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grain	compound
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cloth	cc
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grain	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 timber	case
6	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grain	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 afar	case
8	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 timber	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Grows great forests in the desert overnight with magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forests	amod
3	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grows	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 desert	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 desert	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forests	nmod
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	1 Grows	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 magic	case
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present		great forests		the desert		with magic; overnight property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent forest=Patient with magic=Instrument

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