Test 5 · ★ · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms

so was india like super behind egypt back then or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: india

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 india	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 india	cop
3	india	india	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 what	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 egypt	case
5	super	super	ADV	_	7 egypt	advmod
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 egypt	case
7	egypt	egypt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 india	nmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 then	advmod
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 what	advmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		india				like egypt	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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, India was empty then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 empty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 empty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 empty	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	India				then	empty property	tree rules

Option 2

No, India had cars already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	already	already	ADV	_	4 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	India	cars					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient

Option 3

Yes, India had no cities at all until the Romans came to build them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cities	det
6	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 had	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Romans	det
11	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 build	mark
14	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	India	no cities	all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient
2	come	past	the Romans			tree rules
3	build	to-infinitive	the Romans not said here	Romans = roman		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the Indus cities were great at the same time as the pyramids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 great	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cities	det
4	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cities	compound
5	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 great	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 great	cop
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 great	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 pyramids	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pyramids	det
14	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 great	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Indus cities				time	as the pyramids; great property	tree rules

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