Test 9 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs
Before Narmer, Egypt had two lands. What were they called?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Egypt · What happens: have, call · To what, where: two lands, lands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: Before Narmer, Egypt had two lands.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 Narmer | case |
| 2 | Narmer | Narmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Narmer | punct |
| 4 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 lands | nummod |
| 7 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Egypt | two lands | before Narmer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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 were they called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | lands = land | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
North Egypt and East Egypt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Egypt | compound |
| 2 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 East | cc |
| 4 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Egypt | conj |
| 5 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 East | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Old Egypt and New Egypt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Egypt | amod |
| 2 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Egypt | cc |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Egypt | compound |
| 5 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Egypt | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Big Egypt and Little Egypt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Egypt | amod |
| 2 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Egypt | cc |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Egypt | amod |
| 5 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Egypt | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper | upper | ADP | _ | 2 Egypt | case |
| 2 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Lower | cc |
| 4 | Lower | Lower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Egypt | conj |
| 5 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lower | flat |
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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