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Test 2 · ★ · Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust ea…

«most ppl couldnt read back then right?» asks Isla. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ppl couldnt, Isla · What happens: read, ask, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 63 «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» 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: «most ppl couldnt read back then right?» asks Isla.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 ppl	amod
3	ppl	people	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	4 couldnt	compound
4	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asks	advcl
6	back	back	ADV	_	8 right	advmod
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 right	advmod
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 read	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
11	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asks	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read in a quote	past	ppl couldnt					right property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	Isla						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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.

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

No, reading was banned for everyone except kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 banned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 banned	aux:pass
5	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 banned	obl
8	except	except	ADP	_	9 kings	case
9	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 everyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive		reading				for everyone	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Right, and still nobody can read today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	7 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 read	cc
4	still	still	ADV	_	7 read	advmod
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 read	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 read	aux
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 read	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	nobody				still; today		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, nearly everyone could read, even in the villages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 everyone	advmod
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 read	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 read	aux
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 villages	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 villages	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 villages	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 villages	det
11	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	could	everyone			the villages			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Right; around 1820 only about one adult in eight could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 1820	punct
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 1820	case
4	1820	1820	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Right	obl
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 adult	nummod
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 could	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 eight	case
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 adult	nmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 1820	nmod

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

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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