Test 2 · ★★★ · Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, won…

Max's game shows "barbarians" as screaming hordes with clubs. His mate: "Barbs were just savages, innit." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game, hordes, Barbs · What happens: show, scream, be · To what, where: barbarians, savages

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: Max's game shows "barbarians" as screaming hordes with clubs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 game	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Max	case
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 barbarians	punct
6	barbarians	barbarian	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shows	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 barbarians	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 screaming	mark
9	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shows	advcl
10	hordes	horde	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 screaming	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 clubs	case
12	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 screaming	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Max's game	barbarians					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent barbarian=Recipient
2	scream speech: express	gerund	hordes					with clubs	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with club=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 mate: "Barbs were just savages, innit."

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 savages	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Barbs	punct
5	Barbs	barb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 savages	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 savages	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 savages	advmod
8	savages	savage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mate	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 savages	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 savages	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 savages	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Barbs	savages and innit					tree rules

Sentence 3: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They were all one single tribe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tribe	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tribe	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tribe	nummod
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tribe	amod
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	one single tribe					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many so-called barbarians had laws, trade and arts, and the Goths were Christians

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 barbarians	amod
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 so	punct
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 barbarians	acl
5	barbarians	barbarian	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trade	punct
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laws	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 arts	cc
11	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laws	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Goths	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Goths	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Goths	det
15	Goths	Goth	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 had	obl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Christians	cop
17	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 Goths	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		Many barbarians not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	Many barbarians	laws and trade and arts	the Goths and Christians obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient
3	is a	past	Many barbarians not said here	Christians		tree rules

Option 3

They lived only in caves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 caves	case
5	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	They			caves			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

Option 4

They had no language at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 language	det
4	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 language	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no language		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient

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