Test 8 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

One king ruling many cities and peoples is called what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: One king · What happens: rule, call · To what, where: many cities, One king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 king	nummod
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	nsubj:pass
3	ruling	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 king	acl
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cities	amod
5	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ruling	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 peoples	cc
7	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cities	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 called	aux:pass
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 called	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	gerund	One king not said here	many cities and peoples					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
2	call	present · passive		One king					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 empire	det
2	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A tribe of hunters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tribe	det
2	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hunters	case
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tribe	nmod

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

Option 3

A democracy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 democracy	det
2	democracy	democracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A small village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 village	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 village	amod
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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