Test 4 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs
A cartoon shows Egyptians eating burgers. What did they really eat most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, Egyptians · What happens: show, eat, do · To what, where: Egyptians, burgers, most
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon shows Egyptians eating burgers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 5 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Egyptians | acl |
| 6 | burgers | burger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eating | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | Egyptians | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent egyptian=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | Egyptians not said here | burgers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burger=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: What did they really eat most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | eat | present | Egyptians = egyptian | most | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Bread, onions and fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 onions | punct |
| 3 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bread | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fish | cc |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bread | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Tacos and beans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tacos | taco | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 beans | cc |
| 3 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tacos | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sushi and rice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sushi | sushi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rice | cc |
| 3 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sushi | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Burgers and chips
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burgers | burger | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chips | cc |
| 3 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Burgers | conj |
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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