Test 4 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline

Zara asks: so one day everyone switched to bronze?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zara, everyone · What happens: ask, switch, bronze

This is test 4 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	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 switched	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 switched	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 switched	obl:unmarked
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 switched	nsubj
8	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bronze	mark
10	bronze	bronze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 switched	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Zara		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	switch	past	everyone	day	tree rules
3	bronze	to-infinitive	everyone not said here		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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

No, bronze came after iron everywhere in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 bronze	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 iron	case
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 came	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	bronze			the world	after iron	everywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location

Option 2

Yes, on a day that every king in the world agreed on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 agreed	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 agreed	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	nmod
12	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 day	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADV	_	12 agreed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	every king in the world	a day					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent that=Topic

Option 3

Yes, all at once, everywhere, in the year 1000 AD

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 everywhere	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	ADV	_	7 everywhere	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 all	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 everywhere	punct
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 everywhere	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 everywhere	obl
12	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 year	flat
13	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 year	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, metals came at different times in different places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 times	case
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 times	amod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 places	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	metals			different places	time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

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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