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Test 12 · ★★★ · Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, won…

Leo: "Games teach history, so I don't need books, no cap!" His teacher: "They teach some things." Which is the wisest plan?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Games, I, teacher · What happens: teach, not need, be · To what, where: history, books, things, wisest plan

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls» 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: Leo: "Games teach history, so I don't need books, no cap!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 teach	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 teach	punct
4	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teach	nsubj
5	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leo	parataxis
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teach	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 need	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 need	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 need	advmod
12	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 teach	ccomp
13	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 need	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 books	nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	present	Games	history					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent history=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not need in a quote	present · do-support	I	books no cap					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot book=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: His teacher: "They teach some things."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teach	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 teach	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 teach	punct
5	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 teach	nsubj
6	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 things	det
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teach	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 teach	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 teach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	present	Leo's teacher	some things					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient

Sentence 3: Which is the wisest plan?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 plan	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plan	det
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Never play games at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 play	advmod
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	imperative	you not said here	games		all			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 2

Trust the game completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trust	obj
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	1 Trust	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	imperative	you not said here	the game				completely property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

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

Use the game as a start, then check books, museums and the people whose history it is

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 start	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 start	det
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 check	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 check	advmod
9	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Use	conj
10	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 check	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 museums	punct
12	museums	museum	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 books	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 people	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 books	conj
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 history	nmod:poss
17	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 people	nsubj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 check	obj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Use	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						as a start; use property	tree rules
2	check	infinitive		books and museums and the people			then		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent book=Theme it=Attribute
3	people		the people's history						tree rules

Option 4

Believe whatever the loudest player says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 says	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 player	det
4	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 player	amod
5	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Believe	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	the loudest player	whatever					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic

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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