Test 3 · ★★ · Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to…

«toad's in a castle dungeon, so prisons in 1908 were castles» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toad, prisons, best answer · What happens: be · To what, where: castle dungeon, castles

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 84 «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 dungeon	punct
2	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dungeon	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dungeon	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 dungeon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dungeon	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dungeon	compound
7	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 castles	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 castles	advmod
10	prisons	prison	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 castles	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1908	case
12	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 prisons	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 castles	cop
14	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dungeon	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 castles	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 castles	acl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dungeon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	toad		a castle dungeon and castles	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	prisons in 1908	castles		tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer	a castle dungeon and castles		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

Yes, every prison in 1908 was a castle with a drawbridge and knights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 castle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 prison	det
4	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 castle	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1908	case
6	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 prison	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 castle	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 drawbridge	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 drawbridge	det
12	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 castle	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 knights	cc
14	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drawbridge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	every prison in 1908	a castle				with a drawbridge and knights	tree rules

Option 2

Prisons in 1908 were just tents in fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prisons	prison	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tents	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 1908	case
3	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Prisons	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tents	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 tents	advmod
6	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 fields	case
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tents	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Prisons in 1908	tents		fields			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Most were new prisons with rows of cells, though a few castles were still used

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 prisons	amod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prisons	cop
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prisons	amod
4	prisons	prison	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 used	nsubj:pass
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 rows	case
6	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prisons	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cells	case
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rows	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 castles	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 castles	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 castles	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 castles	amod
13	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prisons	parataxis
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 used	aux:pass
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 used	advmod
16	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Most new prisons				with rows of cells	tree rules
2	use	past · passive		Most new prisons			still		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

No, prisons in 1908 were all built deep underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 prisons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	prisons	prison	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	nsubj:pass
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1908	case
5	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 prisons	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 built	aux:pass
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 built	advmod
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	deep	deep	ADV	_	10 underground	advmod
10	underground	underground	ADV	_	8 built	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		prisons in 1908				all, underground property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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