Test 3 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs

Which is true about when Cleopatra lived?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cleopatra · What happens: be, live

This is test 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 lived	mark
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 lived	advmod
6	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	live	past	Cleopatra						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

She lived in the Middle Ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ages	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ages	det
5	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ages	flat
6	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	She				in the Middle Ages		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She lived closer to us than to the building of the Great Pyramid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 lived	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lived	obl
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 building	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 building	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 building	det
9	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Pyramid	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Pyramid	det
12	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Pyramid	amod
13	Pyramid	Pyramid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 building	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	She		us			than the building of the Great Pyramid; close property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She lived at the same time as the pyramid builders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 builders	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 builders	det
9	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 builders	compound
10	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	She				time	as the pyramid builders	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She lived before the first farms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	6 farms	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farms	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 farms	amod
6	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	She			the first farms			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before farm=Location

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