Test 7 · Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them…

Oscar's brother: "London just burnt down in 1666 and that was it, game over." What actually followed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, that · What happens: burnt down, be, follow · To what, where: London, 1666, it

This is test 7 of lesson 73 «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» 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: Oscar's brother: "London just burnt down in 1666 and that was it, game over."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Oscar	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 burnt	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 London	punct
6	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 burnt	nsubj:pass
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 burnt	advmod
8	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brother	acl:relcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 burnt	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1666	case
11	1666	1666	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 burnt	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 it	cc
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 it	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 it	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 1666	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 game	punct
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burnt	obl
18	over	over	ADV	_	17 game	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt down in a quote	participle · passive	Oscar's brother not said here	London		1666		game obl	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	that	it					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 actually followed?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 followed	nsubj:pass
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 followed	advmod
3	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	participle · passive						actually property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The city was rebuilt with brick and stone, and fire brigades and insurance grew

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	4 rebuilt	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rebuilt	aux:pass
4	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 brick	case
6	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rebuilt	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stone	cc
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brick	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grew	cc
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brigades	compound
12	brigades	brigade	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 insurance	cc
14	insurance	insurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brigades	conj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rebuilt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rebuild	past · passive		the city				with brick and stone	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	grow	past	fire brigades and insurance						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Fires were banned by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 law	case
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive	law	Fires					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 3

The fire lasted only ten minutes, so not much needed rebuilding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	nsubj
3	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 minutes	advmod
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lasted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rebuilding	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 needed	advmod
11	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rebuilding	amod
12	rebuilding	rebuilding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	the fire	needed rebuilding			minute		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	need	participle							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

London was left empty for a hundred years while the ashes cooled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 left	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 left	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 ashes	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ashes	det
11	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	obl
12	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ashes	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		London			year	the ashes obl; empty property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cool	participle		the ashes not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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/73-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe/t7/