Test 2 · ★ · Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks a…

lucía's mate says aztecs weren't smart cos no wheels. hold up, what's the truth

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, aztecs · What happens: say, not be, hold up, be · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 62 «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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	lucía	lucía	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 lucía	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	aztecs	aztec	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 smart	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smart	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 smart	advmod
8	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 wheels	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 wheels	det
11	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 smart	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 smart	punct
13	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 smart	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 hold	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 truth	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 truth	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 truth	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 truth	det
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smart	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	lucía's mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	aztecs		cos no wheels; smart property	tree rules
3	hold up	infinitive				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	is a	present		the truth		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

They had cars hidden in the jungle the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cars	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 jungle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jungle	det
7	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	cars			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient
2	hide	participle		cars not said here		the jungle			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in jungle=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They knew wheels from toys but carts did not fit their land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 toys	case
5	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 fit	cc
7	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fit	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fit	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fit	advmod
10	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 land	nmod:poss
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	They	wheels		toys			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wheel=Stimulus
2	not fit	past · do-support	carts	carts's land					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient

Option 3

Nah your mate's right, they couldn't build anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 right	discourse
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 right	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 build	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 build	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 build	advmod
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 right	conj
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 build	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	your mate					right property	tree rules
2	not build	could	they	anything		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anything=Product

Option 4

They had never seen anything round, not even the Moon lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 seen	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Moon	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 Moon	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 Moon	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 seen	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	They	anything				the Moon obl; round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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