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Test 2 · Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time

Freddie asks who the twelve people on the court show are. What do they do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freddie, twelve people, people · What happens: ask, be, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: Freddie asks who the twelve people on the court show are.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 asks	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 who	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 show	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 show	det
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	compound
10	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 who	cop
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Freddie						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the twelve people on the court show						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: What do they do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	people						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They are the judge's own family and friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 family	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 family	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 judge	det
4	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 judge	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 family	amod
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 friends	cc
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 family	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the judge's own family and friends					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ordinary people judge the evidence together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 judge	nsubj
3	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 evidence	det
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 judge	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	3 judge	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	present	Ordinary people	the evidence				together property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent evidence=Value

Option 3

They sing songs between the trials

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sing	nsubj
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sing	obj
4	between	between	ADP	_	6 trials	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trials	det
6	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	They	songs				between the trials	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

They guard the prison and lock the doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guard	nsubj
2	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prison	det
4	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guard	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lock	cc
6	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guard	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doors	det
8	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lock	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	They	the prison					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prison=Beneficiary
2	lock	present	They not said here	the doors					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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