Test 10 · ★★★ · Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers

blah blah so the gupta age was like the dark ages for india right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: blah blah · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blah	blah	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blah	compound
2	blah	blah	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ages	nsubj
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 age	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 age	det
5	gupta	gupta	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 age	compound
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blah	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ages	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 ages	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ages	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ages	amod
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 india	case
13	india	india	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ages	nmod
14	right	right	ADV	_	11 ages	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 ages	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	blah blah so the gupta age				like the dark ages	for india; right 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.

The options

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

No, it was a golden age of science, art and poetry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 age	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 age	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 age	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 age	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 age	amod
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 science	case
9	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 age	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 art	punct
11	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 science	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 poetry	cc
13	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 science	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a golden age				of science and art and poetry	tree rules

Option 2

No, it was the Ice Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 Age	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Age	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Age	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Age	det
6	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Age	compound
7	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the Ice Age					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, nothing happened at all for hundreds of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 happened	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 hundreds	case
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hundreds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	nothing			all		for hundreds of years	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

Yes, all books were burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 books	det
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burned	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burned	aux:pass
6	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · passive		all books					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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