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Test 5 · ★ · From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires a…

Sam paints the map one colour in EU4 and says «just conquer everything». What would real rulers tell him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam, real rulers · What happens: paint, say, conquer, tell · To what, where: map, everything, Sam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Sam paints the map one colour in EU4 and says «just conquer everything».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 paints	nsubj
2	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 map	det
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paints	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 colour	nummod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paints	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 EU4	case
8	EU4	EU4	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 colour	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 paints	conj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 conquer	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 conquer	advmod
13	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 conquer	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 conquer	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paints	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	Sam	the map					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent map=Patient colour=Result
2	say speech: assert	present	Sam not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	conquer in a quote	infinitive		everything					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

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 would real rulers tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rulers	amod
4	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	real rulers		Sam				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Painting the whole map one colour always brought peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 brought	csubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 map	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 map	amod
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painting	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 colour	nummod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painting	obl
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 brought	advmod
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	gerund		the whole map				one colour obl	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent map=Destination
2	bring	participle	Painting	peace				always property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent peace=Theme

Option 2

Empires never broke up once the map was painted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broke	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 broke	advmod
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 broke	compound:prt
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 painted	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 map	det
7	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 painted	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 painted	aux:pass
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 broke	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break up	past	Empires						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	paint	past · passive		the map					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3

Conquest was always easy and cheap, so go for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conquest	Conquest	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 easy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 easy	advmod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cheap	cc
6	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easy	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Conquest					always, easy property	tree rules
2	be		Conquest not said here						tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Conquest not said here					for it	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Holding land was the hard part; rebellions and costs grew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 part	csubj
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 part	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 rebellions	punct
8	rebellions	rebellion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grew	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 costs	cc
10	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rebellions	conj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 part	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		land					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
2	is a	past	Holding	the hard part					tree rules
3	grow	past	rebellions and costs	the hard part not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=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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