Test 3 · ★ · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms
You dig up a seal with a bull and signs nobody can read. Where was it probably from?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, nobody, seal · What happens: dig up, read, be · To what, where: seal, signs
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 7 «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» 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: You dig up a seal with a bull and signs nobody can read.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 dig | nsubj |
| 2 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dig | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 seal | det |
| 5 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dig | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bull | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bull | det |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dig | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 signs | cc |
| 10 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bull | conj |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 read | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 read | aux |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 signs | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dig | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | present | You | a seal | with a bull and signs | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent seal=Theme with bull=Instrument | |||
| 2 | read | can | nobody | signs not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic |
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: Where was it probably from?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 from | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 1 Where | case |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | seal | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ancient Rome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Rome | amod |
| 2 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Aztec Empire in Mexico
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empire | det |
| 2 | Aztec | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Empire | compound |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Mexico | case |
| 5 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Empire | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Viking Norway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Viking | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Indus Valley cities
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cities | det |
| 2 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Valley | compound |
| 3 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cities | compound |
| 4 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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