Test 5 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes
Finn asks why Lübeck is so fancy. What is the best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finn, Lübeck, best answer · What happens: ask, be
This is test 5 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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: Finn asks why Lübeck is so fancy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fancy | advmod |
| 4 | Lübeck | Lübeck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fancy | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fancy | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 fancy | advmod |
| 7 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Finn | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Lübeck | fancy property | 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.
Sentence 2: What is the best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It was the Roman capital of all Germany and Denmark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 capital | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 capital | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 capital | det |
| 4 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 capital | amod |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Germany | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 Germany | det |
| 8 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 capital | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Denmark | cc |
| 10 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Germany | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | the Roman capital | of all Germany and Denmark | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Rich merchants of the Hanseatic League built it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 merchants | amod |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 League | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 League | det |
| 5 | Hanseatic | Hanseatic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 League | compound |
| 6 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 merchants | nmod |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 built | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Rich merchants of the Hanseatic League | League | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
Option 3
It was all built last year for tourists
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 built | advmod |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | amod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 tourists | case |
| 8 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | It | year | for tourists; all property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for tourist=Beneficiary |
Option 4
A dragon left a big pile of gold there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pile | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pile | amod |
| 6 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pile | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | a dragon | a big pile of gold | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Theme |
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