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Test 10 · Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time

Molly says Domesday Book sounds like a horror film. What did «doom» mean?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Molly, Domesday Book, doom · What happens: say, sound, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 68 «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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: Molly says Domesday Book sounds like a horror film.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Domesday	Domesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Book	compound
4	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nsubj
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 film	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 film	det
8	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 film	compound
9	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Molly						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sound	present	Domesday Book					like a horror film	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 «doom» mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mean	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 doom	punct
4	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 doom	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	doom						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Judgement, because the records were final

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 final	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 final	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 records	det
5	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 final	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 final	cop
7	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Judgement	conj

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

Option 2

The end of the world, which people feared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 end	det
2	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feared	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feared	punct
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 feared	nsubj
9	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	the end of the world						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A kind of tax on doors and windows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 tax	case
4	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 doors	case
6	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 windows	cc
8	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doors	conj

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

Option 4

Monsters and ghosts that haunted the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 haunted	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ghosts	cc
3	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Monsters	conj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 haunted	nsubj
5	haunted	haunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 haunted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	past	Monsters and ghosts	the land					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer

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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