Test 6 · ★ · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms
Why did the prince Siddhartha leave his comfortable palace?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Siddhartha · What happens: leave · To what, where: comfortable palace
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 leave | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Siddhartha | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Siddhartha | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Siddhartha | Siddhartha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | amod |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | the Siddhartha prince | Siddhartha's comfortable palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
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
To become a soldier for Rome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 become | mark |
| 2 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 become | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Rome | case |
| 6 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 soldier | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | to-infinitive | a soldier for Rome | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
To understand why people suffer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 understand | mark |
| 2 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 suffer | advmod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 suffer | nsubj |
| 5 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 understand | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | suffer | present | people | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Because the palace burned down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 burned | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 burned | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn down | participle · passive | the palace | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
To find gold in the mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountains | det |
| 6 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | gold | the mountains | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/t6/