Test 4 · ★★★ · Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers
In modern chess the bishop sits next to the knight. Which chaturanga piece once stood there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bishop, chaturanga piece · What happens: sit, stand · To what, where: modern chess
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: In modern chess the bishop sits next to the knight.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 chess | case |
| 2 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chess | amod |
| 3 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bishop | det |
| 5 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | nsubj |
| 6 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | next | next | ADV | _ | 6 sits | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 knight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the bishop | modern chess | to the knight; next property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chess=Location |
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: Which chaturanga piece once stood there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 chaturanga | det |
| 2 | chaturanga | chaturanga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | compound |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | chaturanga piece | there | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The wizard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wizard | det |
| 2 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The elephant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The camel driver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 driver | det |
| 2 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driver | compound |
| 3 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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