Test 5 · Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks
A Lviv shoemaker in 1600 has a quarrel with a neighbour. Where might it be judged?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lviv shoemaker · What happens: have, judge · To what, where: quarrel, shoemaker
This is test 5 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: A Lviv shoemaker in 1600 has a quarrel with a neighbour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shoemaker | det |
| 2 | Lviv | Lviv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shoemaker | compound |
| 3 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1600 | case |
| 5 | 1600 | 1600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 shoemaker | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 quarrel | det |
| 8 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 neighbour | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 neighbour | det |
| 11 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quarrel | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a Lviv shoemaker in 1600 | a quarrel | with a neighbour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=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: Where might it be judged?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 judged | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 judged | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 judged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 judged | aux:pass |
| 5 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 judged | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | might · passive | shoemaker | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nowhere, there were no courts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 were | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nowhere | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 courts | det |
| 6 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no courts | there | nowhere property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
By the Pope in person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 Pope | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pope | det |
| 3 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 person | case |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Pope | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only by the sultan in Istanbul
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 sultan | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 sultan | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sultan | det |
| 4 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Istanbul | case |
| 6 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sultan | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
In the town court, thanks to Magdeburg rights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 court | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 court | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 court | compound |
| 4 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thanks | punct |
| 6 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 court | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 rights | case |
| 8 | Magdeburg | Magdeburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rights | compound |
| 9 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thanks | nmod |
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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