Test 1 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline

lol my tribe got farming on turn 5, real life is the same innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tribe, real life · What happens: get, be · To what, where: farming, turn, same innit

This is test 1 of lesson 61 «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tribe	nmod:poss
3	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 turn	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 turn	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 life	amod
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 innit	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 innit	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 innit	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 innit	amod
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	my tribe	farming		turn and the same innit			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent farming=Theme on turn=Source
2	is a	present	real life	the same innit					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, farming only came about 500 years ago with the Romans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 farming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 500	advmod
7	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 Romans	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Romans	det
12	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come about	past	farming					with the Romans; ago property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, and the wheel came on turn 1 too, that's just how it went

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wheel	det
5	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 turn	case
8	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
9	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 turn	flat
10	too	too	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 how	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 how	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 how	advmod
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 went	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the wheel	turn		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on turn=Location
2	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
3	go	past	wheel			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, real people hunted and gathered for nearly 300,000 years first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hunted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hunted	punct
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunted	nsubj
5	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gathered	cc
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunted	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 300,000	advmod
10	300,000	300000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gathered	obl
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	real people						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gather	past	real people not said here				year		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, farming came pretty much right after people did, like day one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 right	advmod
7	right	right	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 did	mark
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 day	case
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obl:unmarked
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	farming					right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	people				day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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