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Test 4 · ★ · From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires a…

Darius's grandad says Cyrus let people keep their gods, bro. Why was that smart?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, Cyrus, people · What happens: say, let, keep, be · To what, where: people, gods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Darius's grandad says Cyrus let people keep their gods, bro.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Darius	Darius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Darius	case
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 let	obj
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gods	nmod:poss
10	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gods	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Darius's grandad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive	Cyrus	people					tree rules
3	keep	infinitive	people not said here	people's gods and bro					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=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: Why was that smart?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 smart	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smart	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 smart	mark
4	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						smart property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It stopped all trade inside the empire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 trade	nsubj
4	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	ccomp
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 empire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 empire	det
7	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trade	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	trade	present	all			the empire			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It meant nobody ever paid any taxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 paid	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 paid	advmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 meant	ccomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 taxes	det
7	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	past	nobody	any taxes			ever		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It helped a huge empire stay calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helped	nsubj
2	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 empire	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 empire	amod
5	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helped	obj
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helped	xcomp
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	It	a huge empire					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent empire=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	stay	infinitive	a huge empire not said here					calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It made the empire much smaller and weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 empire	det
4	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 smaller	advmod
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 weaker	cc
8	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 smaller	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	the empire				small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material empire=Product

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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