Test 9 · ★★ · Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs

Where does our word paper come from?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: word paper · What happens: come

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 come	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 paper	nmod:poss
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paper	compound
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	6 come	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · do-support	our word paper						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

From the Latin for tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 Latin	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Latin	det
3	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 tree	case
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Latin	nmod

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

Option 2

From the sound of tearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 sound	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 tearing	case
5	tearing	tearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

From papyrus, the Egyptian reed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 papyrus	case
2	papyrus	papyrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reed	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reed	det
5	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reed	amod
6	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 papyrus	conj

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

Option 4

From the name of a Chinese city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 name	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 name	det
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 city	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 city	det
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 city	amod
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			a Chinese city					nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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