Test 4 · ★ · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms

If every brick is the same size, what does that suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: be, suggest · To what, where: same size

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 brick	mark
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 brick	det
3	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 size	advcl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 size	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 size	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 size	amod
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 suggest	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 suggest	obj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 suggest	aux
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 suggest	nsubj
12	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 size	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 size	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the same size					tree rules
2	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	that	the same size					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody cared how houses looked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 cared	nsubj
2	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 looked	advmod
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	past	Nobody						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	past	houses						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Bricks grew on trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Bricks			trees			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Someone planned and organised the building

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 planned	nsubj
2	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 organised	cc
4	organised	organise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 planned	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 building	det
6	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 organised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past	Someone						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	organise	past	Someone not said here	the building					tree rules

Option 4

The bricks were all made by one person alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bricks	det
2	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 person	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 person	nummod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 person	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	one person	the bricks				all property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

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