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Test 3 · ★★ · Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs

Uncle says Napoleon's soldiers shot the Sphinx's nose off. Right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle, soldiers · What happens: say, shoot off · To what, where: nose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Uncle says Napoleon's soldiers shot the Sphinx's nose off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 soldiers	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Napoleon	case
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shot	nsubj
6	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sphinx	det
8	Sphinx	Sphinx	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 nose	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Sphinx	case
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shot	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	6 shot	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shoot off	past	Napoleon's soldiers	the Sphinx's nose					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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.

Sentence 2: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Yes, and they took the nose back to Paris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nose	det
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Paris	case
10	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past	they	the nose	Paris				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme to paris=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the nose was damaged long before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 damaged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nose	det
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 damaged	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 damaged	aux:pass
6	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 before	advmod
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 damaged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	past · passive		the nose				before property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Yes, with a big cannon in 1799

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 cannon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cannon	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 cannon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cannon	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cannon	amod
6	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1799	case
8	1799	1799	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 cannon	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

No, the Sphinx never had a nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sphinx	det
4	Sphinx	Sphinx	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nose	det
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	the Sphinx	a nose					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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