Test 9 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

Why would star records kept for centuries be useful?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: star records

This is test 9 · ★ 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 kept	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	aux
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 records	compound
4	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj:pass
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 useful	csubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 centuries	case
7	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obl
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 useful	cop
9	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would · passive		star records			century		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	imperative	you not said here					useful 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They help make calendars and predict the sky

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 make	nsubj
2	help	help	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	calendars	calendar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 predict	cc
6	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 predict	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make		They	calendars					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset calendar=Product
2	predict	infinitive	They not said here	the sky					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sky=Topic

Option 2

They help find lost sheep

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	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sheep	amod
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	present	They		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	infinitive	They not said here	lost sheep	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Topic
3	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They show where to dig for gold

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	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 dig	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dig	mark
5	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dig	to-infinitive						for gold	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme

Option 4

They tell you the weather tomorrow exactly

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	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weather	det
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tomorrow	compound
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl:unmarked
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	They		you		tomorrow	exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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