Test 5 · ★ · Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks a…
Noah asks if the first Australians just walked there. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Noah, first Australians · What happens: ask, walk, be
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Noah asks if the first Australians just walked there.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 walked | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Australians | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Australians | amod |
| 6 | Australians | Australian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 walked | advmod |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 walked | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Noah | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | walk a condition, not said to happen | past | the first Australians | there | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, they arrived by plane in the 1900s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 arrived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 plane | case |
| 6 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1900s | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 1900s | det |
| 9 | 1900s | 1900 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 arrived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | they | the 1900s | by plane | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, there was always open sea; they used boats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 used | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 open | advmod |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 used | nsubj |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 used | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | use property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, it was all dry land, so they just walked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 land | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 land | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 land | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 land | det |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 land | amod |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 land | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | all dry land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | they | all dry land not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Trajectory |
Option 4
Yes, they walked over the ice from Antarctica
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Antarctica | case |
| 9 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | they | the ice | from Antarctica | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ice=Trajectory |
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