Test 1 · ★★ · Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs

a youtube video says aliens built the pyramids bc humans couldn't. what's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youtube video, aliens · What happens: say, build, be · To what, where: pyramids, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 video	det
2	youtube	YouTube	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 video	compound
3	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	aliens	alien	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 built	nsubj
6	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pyramids	det
8	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 built	obj
9	bc	BC	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 humans	compound
10	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pyramids	acl:relcl
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 could	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 truth	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 truth	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 truth	det
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a youtube video		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	build	past	aliens	the pyramids	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pyramid=Product
3	is a	present		the truth	tree rules

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

Aliens did help with the heavy top stones, the rest was people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aliens	alien	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 stones	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stones	det
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stones	compound
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 people	cop
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past · do-support	Aliens					with the heavy top stones	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme
2	is a	past	the rest	people					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody built them, they are hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hills	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hills	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hills	cop
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Nobody	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
2	is a	present	they	hills					tree rules

Option 3

Romans built them later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	obj
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 built	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Romans	them = they				late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Egyptian workers did it with sledges, ramps and teamwork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 workers	amod
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 sledges	case
6	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ramps	punct
8	ramps	ramp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sledges	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 teamwork	cc
10	teamwork	teamwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sledges	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Egyptian workers	it				with sledges and ramps and teamwork	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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