Test 6 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes

Zeynep says the Grand Bazaar is older than America as a country. Right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zeynep, Grand Bazaar · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Zeynep says the Grand Bazaar is older than America as a country.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zeynep	Zeynep	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bazaar	det
4	Grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bazaar	amod
5	Bazaar	Bazaar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 older	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 older	cop
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 says	ccomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 America	case
9	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 older	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 country	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 older	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Zeynep						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the Grand Bazaar					than America; as a country; old 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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Yes, it is about 10,000 years old, older than cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 old	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 10,000	advmod
6	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	obl:unmarked
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 older	punct
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 old	parataxis
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 cities	case
12	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 older	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it				year	old property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it was started in the 1450s, before the US existed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 started	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 started	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 started	aux:pass
5	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 1450s	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 1450s	det
8	1450s	1450	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	5 started	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 existed	punct
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 existed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 US	det
12	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 existed	nsubj
13	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 started	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past · passive		it		the 1450s			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	exist	past	the US						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, it only opened in 1990, so it's younger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 opened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 opened	advmod
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1990	case
7	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 opened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 younger	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 younger	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 younger	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 younger	cop
12	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 opened	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	it			1990			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1990=Location
2	is	present	it					young property	tree rules

Option 4

No, it's a modern shopping mall built in 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 mall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mall	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mall	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mall	det
6	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mall	amod
7	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mall	compound
8	mall	mall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 mall	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 2000	case
11	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a modern shopping mall					tree rules
2	build	participle		a modern shopping mall not said here				in 2000	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2000=Attribute

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