Test 6 · ★ · Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news

Kai's cousin: "Chess is proper English, innit, knights and castles." What's the correction?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Chess, correction · What happens: be · To what, where: proper English

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 75 «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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: Kai's cousin: "Chess is proper English, innit, knights and castles."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kai	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 English	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 English	punct
6	Chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 English	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 English	cop
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 English	amod
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	INTJ	_	9 English	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knights	punct
13	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cousin	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 castles	cc
15	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 knights	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Chess	proper English					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's the correction?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 correction	det
4	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the correction						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Chess began in Ancient Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Rome	case
4	Ancient	Ancient	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rome	compound
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Chess			Ancient Rome			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Your cousin's right, chess was invented in London by English knights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chess	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cousin	case
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chess	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
6	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 invented	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 invented	aux:pass
8	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 London	case
10	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 invented	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 knights	case
12	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 knights	amod
13	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive	English knights	Your cousin's right chess		London			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Chess began in India and spread through Persia and the Arab world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 India	case
4	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spread	cc
6	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 Persia	case
8	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 world	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
11	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Persia	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Chess			India			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	spread	past	Chess not said here			Persia and the Arab world			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through persia=Location

Option 4

Chess came from America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 America	case
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Chess			America			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from america=Initial_Location

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