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Test 10 · ★★ · Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs

The workers lived in a town near the pyramids, with bakeries. What does this suggest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: workers, this · What happens: live, suggest · To what, where: town

This is test 10 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: The workers lived in a town near the pyramids, with bakeries.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 workers	det
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 pyramids	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pyramids	det
9	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bakeries	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 bakeries	case
12	bakeries	bakery	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pyramids	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the workers			a town		near the pyramids and bakeries	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

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 does this suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 suggest	nsubj
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	this						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

They were robbers waiting there to break in after the funeral

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	4 waiting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waiting	nsubj
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 waiting	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 break	mark
7	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waiting	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 break	compound:prt
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 funeral	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 funeral	det
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	They			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break in	to-infinitive	They not said here				after the funeral		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were organised, fed workers, not slaves in chains

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	3 organised	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 organised	cop
3	organised	organised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 workers	punct
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 workers	amod
6	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 organised	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slaves	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 slaves	advmod
9	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 workers	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 chains	case
11	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 workers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					fed workers in chains and slaves obl; organised property	tree rules
2	feed	participle							vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They lived inside the pyramids

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 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 pyramids	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pyramids	det
5	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	They			the pyramids			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside pyramid=Location

Option 4

They were rich tourists there on holiday

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	4 tourists	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tourists	cop
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tourists	amod
4	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tourists	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 holiday	case
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tourists	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	rich tourists		holiday; there			tree rules

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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