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Test 2 · ★ · From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires a…

Liam thinks chiefs only ever took things from people. What did the potlatch show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Liam · What happens: think, take, do · To what, where: chiefs, things, potlatch show · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Liam thinks chiefs only ever took things from people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thinks	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 took	advmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Liam	chiefs					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent chief=Attribute clause=Theme
2	take	past		things			ever	from people	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from people=Initial_Location

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 did the potlatch show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 show	det
4	potlatch	potlatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	compound
5	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the potlatch show					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Potlatches were tax offices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potlatches	potlatch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offices	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offices	cop
3	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offices	compound
4	offices	office	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Potlatches	tax offices					tree rules

Option 2

Chiefs never gave anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 gave	advmod
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	past	Chiefs	anything					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many chiefs gained respect by giving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chiefs	amod
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gained	nsubj
3	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gained	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 giving	mark
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gained	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	past	Many chiefs	respect					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme
2	give	gerund	Many chiefs not said here						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Chiefs were chosen by coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chosen	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 coins	case
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chosen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive	coins	Chiefs					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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