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Test 8 · Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time

Aisha says the treaty at the UN is older than Jesus. Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aisha, treaty, that · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Aisha says the treaty at the UN is older than Jesus.

nsubjdetnsubjcasedetnmodcopccompcaseoblpunctrootAishaPROPNsaysVERBtheDETtreatyNOUNatADPtheDETUNPROPNisAUXolderADJthanADPJesusPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AishaAishaPROPNNumber=Sing2 saysnsubj
2sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 treatydet
4treatytreatyNOUNNumber=Sing9 oldernsubj
5atatADP_7 UNcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 UNdet
7UNUNPROPNNumber=Sing4 treatynmod
8isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 oldercop
9olderoldADJDegree=Cmp2 saysccomp
10thanthanADP_11 Jesuscase
11JesusJesusPROPNNumber=Sing9 olderobl
12..PUNCT_2 sayspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentAishavn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2ispresentthe treaty at the UNthan Jesus; old propertytree 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: Is that right?

copnsubjpunctrootIsAUXthatPRONrightADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IsbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 rightcop
2thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 rightnsubj
3rightrightADJDegree=Posrootroot
4??PUNCT_3 rightpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentthatright propertytree rules

The options

Option 1

No, it is from 1066

discoursepunctnsubjcopcaserootNoINTJ,PUNCTitPRONisAUXfromADP1066NUM
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NonoINTJPolarity=Neg6 1066discourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Nopunct
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 1066nsubj
4isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 1066cop
5fromfromADP_6 1066case
610661066NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Cardrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentit1066tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it is from around 1259 BCE

discoursepunctnsubjcopcasecasenmod:unmarkedrootYesINTJ,PUNCTitPRONisAUXfromADParoundADP1259NUMBCEPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos7 1259discourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Yespunct
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 1259nsubj
4isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 1259cop
5fromfromADP_7 1259case
6aroundaroundADP_7 1259case
712591259NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Cardrootroot
8BCEBCEPROPNNumber=Sing7 1259nmod:unmarked
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentit1259BCE nmod:unmarkedtree rules

Option 3

No, it was signed in 1945

discoursepunctnsubj:passaux:passcaseoblrootNoINTJ,PUNCTitPRONwasAUXsignedVERBinADP1945NUM
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NonoINTJPolarity=Neg5 signeddiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Nopunct
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 signednsubj:pass
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 signedaux:pass
5signedsignVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6ininADP_7 1945case
719451945NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card5 signedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1signpast · passiveit1945vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1945=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is 300,000 years old

discoursepunctnsubjcopnummodobl:unmarkedrootYesINTJ,PUNCTitPRONisAUX300,000NUMyearsNOUNoldADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos7 olddiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Yespunct
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 oldnsubj
4isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 oldcop
5300,000300000NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card6 yearsnummod
6yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur7 oldobl:unmarked
7oldoldADJDegree=Posrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentityearold propertytree rules

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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