Test 3 · Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks

Danylo says Ostroh was the first uni in Eastern Europe, teacher never heard of it. What's honest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Danylo, Ostroh, teacher · What happens: say, be, not hear · To what, where: first uni, Eastern Europe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 43 «Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks» 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: Danylo says Ostroh was the first uni in Eastern Europe, teacher never heard of it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ostroh	Ostroh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 uni	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 uni	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 uni	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 uni	amod
7	uni	uni	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Europe	case
9	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Europe	amod
10	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 uni	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 teacher	punct
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 heard	advmod
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 uni	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Danylo				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Ostroh	the first uni	Eastern Europe		tree rules
3	not hear	past	teacher			of uni	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

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's honest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 honest	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 honest	cop
3	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 honest	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It was in Moscow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Moscow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Moscow	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Moscow	case
4	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			Moscow			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An early, important school, though Krakow's university was older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 school	det
2	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 school	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 early	punct
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 school	amod
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 older	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 older	mark
8	Krakow	Krakow	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 university	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Krakow	case
10	university	university	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 older	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 older	cop
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 school	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Krakow's university					old property	tree rules

Option 3

The very first university in the whole world, older than Bologna, Paris or Oxford

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 university	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 first	advmod
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 university	amod
4	university	university	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 older	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 university	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 older	punct
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 Bologna	case
12	Bologna	Bologna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 older	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Paris	punct
14	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Bologna	parataxis
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 Oxford	cc
16	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Paris	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It never existed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 existed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 existed	advmod
3	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past	It						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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