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Test 2 · ★ · What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music…

In Europa Universalis, Kai's missionary converts a province and the old religion vanishes in one click. What did real history often look like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: missionary, old religion · What happens: convert, vanish, do, look · To what, where: province, Europa, one click, real history

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 77 «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» 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: In Europa Universalis, Kai's missionary converts a province and the old religion vanishes in one click.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Europa	case
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 converts	obl
3	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Europa	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Europa	punct
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 missionary	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Kai	case
7	missionary	missionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 converts	nsubj
8	converts	convert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 province	det
10	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 converts	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 vanishes	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 religion	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 religion	amod
14	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vanishes	nsubj
15	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 converts	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 click	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 click	nummod
18	click	click	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vanishes	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 converts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convert	present	Kai's missionary	a province		Europa			vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent province=Patient
2	vanish	present	the old religion			one click			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 did real history often look like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 history	amod
4	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	6 look	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		real history					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Eventuality
2	look	present						often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Nobody ever changed religion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 changed	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 changed	advmod
3	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	participle	Nobody	religion			ever		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient

Option 2

Missionaries never went anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past	Missionaries					anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Old languages and customs often survived quietly at home, and some came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 languages	amod
2	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 survived	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 customs	cc
4	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 languages	conj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 survived	advmod
6	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 survived	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 survived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 survived	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	Old languages and customs			home		often, quietly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
2	come back	past	some						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Old ways always vanished in a single day, just as they do in the game, with nothing left

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ways	amod
2	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vanished	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 vanished	advmod
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 do	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 game	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 game	det
16	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nothing	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 nothing	case
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 vanished	parataxis
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	Old ways				day	always property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present	ways = way			the game			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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