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Test 11 · ★★ · Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs

Some Egyptian cures worked and some were spells. Which one probably worked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Egyptian cures, one · What happens: work, be · To what, where: spells

This is test 11 · ★★ 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: Some Egyptian cures worked and some were spells.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 cures	det
2	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cures	amod
3	cures	cure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spells	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 spells	det
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spells	cop
8	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worked	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	some Egyptian cures						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	some Egyptian cures not said here	some spells					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.

Sentence 2: Which one probably worked?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	nsubj
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 worked	advmod
4	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	participle	which one					probably property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Saying a magic word at a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	compound
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 snake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snake	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		a magic word				at a snake	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 2

Painting an eye on the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 eye	det
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painting	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	gerund		a eye		the door			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on door=Destination

Option 3

Wearing a lucky beetle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
3	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beetle	amod
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund		a lucky beetle					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent beetle=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Setting a broken arm straight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 arm	det
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 arm	amod
4	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Setting	obj
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Setting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	gerund		a broken arm				straight property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient arm=Result
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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