Test 1 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs

my sister says Tut's curse killed everyone who opened the tomb. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, curse, Tut · What happens: say, kill, open, curse · To what, where: everyone, tomb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 5 «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tut	Tut	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 curse	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tut	case
6	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 killed	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 everyone	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tomb	det
12	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sister		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill	past	Tut's curse	everyone	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
3	open	past		the tomb	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tomb=Theme
4	curse		Tut		nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Yes, all of them died that same year, one after another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 died	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 year	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 died	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	all	one after another			year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

No, the tomb was never opened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 opened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tomb	det
4	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	aux:pass
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 opened	advmod
7	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not open	past · passive		the tomb					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only the dogs died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 dogs	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the dogs						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a newspaper legend; most lived long lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 legend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legend	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 legend	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 legend	det
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 legend	compound
7	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 legend	punct
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lives	amod
12	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lived	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a newspaper legend					tree rules
2	live	past	a newspaper legend	long lives					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location

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