Test 6 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs

Why did nearly all Egyptians live close to the Nile?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Egyptians · What happens: live

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 live	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Egyptians	aux
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Egyptians	det
5	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 live	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Nile	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Nile	det
10	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 close	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	all Egyptians					close property	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 · ← Mova's choice

The pharaoh banned living in the desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pharaoh	det
2	pharaoh	pharaoh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	nsubj
3	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 banned	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 desert	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 desert	det
7	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past	the pharaoh						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
2	live	gerund	the pharaoh not said here			the desert			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location

Option 2

The river was the only place with roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 place	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 roads	case
8	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the river	the only place				with roads	tree rules

Option 3

They liked to swim every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swim	mark
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 liked	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here				day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The rest of the land was mostly desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desert	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 desert	cop
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 desert	advmod
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the rest of the land	desert				mostly property	tree rules

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