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Test 4 · ★ · Why some places grew rich

Liam's tour guide says the tall, thin Amsterdam houses show how precious canal-side land was. Why was land there so wanted?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tour guide, tall thin Amsterdam houses, side land · What happens: say, show, be, want · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 72 «Why some places grew rich» 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: Liam's tour guide says the tall, thin Amsterdam houses show how precious canal-side land was.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 guide	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Liam	case
3	tour	tour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guide	compound
4	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 houses	det
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 houses	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 houses	amod
10	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 houses	compound
11	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 show	nsubj
12	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 precious	advmod
14	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 show	ccomp
15	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 side	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 canal	punct
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 land	compound
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 precious	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 precious	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Liam's tour guide						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show	present	the tall thin Amsterdam houses						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	side land					precious 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: Why was land there so wanted?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 there	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 there	advcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						there property	tree rules
2	want	participle							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1

Dutch people liked climbing stairs for fun and exercise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 liked	xcomp
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climbing	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 fun	case
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbing	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 exercise	cc
9	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	Dutch people						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	climb not said to happen	gerund	Dutch people not said here	stairs				for fun and exercise	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stair=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The city was a busy, rich trading centre with little room by the canals

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 centre	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 centre	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 centre	det
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 centre	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 centre	amod
8	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 centre	compound
9	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 room	amod
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 centre	nmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 canals	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 canals	det
15	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 centre	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the city	a busy rich trading centre				with little room; by the canals	tree rules

Option 3

Nobody wanted to live near the canals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 live	mark
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 canals	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 canals	det
7	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here			the canals			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near canal=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Houses were built thin so that the storms from the sea would pass by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux:pass
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 built	xcomp
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 pass	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 pass	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storms	det
8	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pass	nsubj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 storms	nmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pass	aux
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 built	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	13 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		Houses				thin property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	pass by	would	the storms from the sea						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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