Test 4 · ★★ · Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs

Why would a pharaoh want his tomb hidden instead of a huge pyramid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pharaoh, tomb · What happens: want, hide · To what, where: tomb

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 want	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pharaoh	det
4	pharaoh	pharaoh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tomb	nmod:poss
7	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 want	xcomp
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 pyramid	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pyramid	det
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pyramid	amod
13	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hidden	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	a pharaoh	pharaoh's tomb					tree rules
2	hide not said to happen	participle	pharaoh's tomb not said here					instead a huge pyramid	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So robbers could not find and empty it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 empty	cc
7	empty	empty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 find	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 empty	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	could	robbers						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	empty	infinitive	robbers not said here	it					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source

Option 2

Hidden tombs were warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tombs	amod
2	tombs	tomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warmer	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warmer	cop
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hidden tombs					warm property	tree rules

Option 3

He wanted to save his money for wars against his enemies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 save	mark
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 money	nmod:poss
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 wars	case
8	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 save	obl
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 enemies	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 enemies	nmod:poss
11	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his money				for wars; against his enemies	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for war=Source

Option 4

Pyramids were too small for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 small	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Pyramids					for him = he; small property	tree rules

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