Test 1 · ★ · From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires a…
Ollie's mum says the famous guess is 150 mates. Is 150 a law of nature?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, famous guess · What happens: say, be · To what, where: 150 mates, 150 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 66 «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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: Ollie's mum says the famous guess is 150 mates.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ollie | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guess | det |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guess | amod |
| 7 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mates | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mates | cop |
| 9 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 mates | nummod |
| 10 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ollie's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the famous guess | 150 mates | 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.
Sentence 2: Is 150 a law of nature?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 150 | cop |
| 2 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 law | det |
| 4 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 150 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 law | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 150 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 150 | a law of nature nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it is a guess that is still argued about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 guess | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 guess | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 guess | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 guess | det |
| 6 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 argued | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 argued | aux:pass |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 argued | advmod |
| 10 | argued | argue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 guess | acl:relcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 argued | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a guess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present · passive | a guess | still | about property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
Option 2
No, the real number is exactly 5, it's in all the books
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 5 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 number | amod |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 5 | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 5 | cop |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 5 | advmod |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 books | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 books | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 books | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 books | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 books | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 books | det |
| 15 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 5 | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real number | 5 and all books | exactly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | number | all books | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, science proved it exactly in a lab
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 proved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proved | nsubj |
| 4 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proved | obj |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 proved | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lab | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lab | det |
| 9 | lab | lab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | science | it | a lab | exactly property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, the 151st friend just vanishes from your life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 vanishes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 4 | 151st | 151 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vanishes | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 vanishes | advmod |
| 7 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vanishes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present | the 151st friend | your life | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from life=Initial_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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/t1/