Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★
★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a printed book. What's the problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, comic, Viking raider, problem · What happens: ★, show, read, print, be · To what, where: Viking raider, Lindisfarne, printed book
This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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: ★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a printed book.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 comic | det |
| 5 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | nsubj |
| 6 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 raider | det |
| 8 | Viking | viking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raider | compound |
| 9 | raider | raider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Lindisfarne | case |
| 11 | Lindisfarne | Lindisfarne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 raider | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 793 | case |
| 13 | 793 | 793 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 raider | nmod |
| 14 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 raider | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 book | det |
| 16 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 book | amod | |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reading | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | present | a comic | a Viking raider | Lindisfarne | in 793 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent raider=Patient in 793=Topic | ||
| 3 | read | gerund | a Viking raider not said here | a printed book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | ||||
| 4 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What's the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Printing in Europe came about 650 years later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Europe | case |
| 3 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Printing | nmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 650 | advmod |
| 6 | 650 | 650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 later | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come about | past | Printing in Europe | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing, Vikings printed books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 books | punct |
| 3 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 books | nsubj |
| 4 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 books | amod | |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 2 | book | Vikings | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing, except the book should be in Latin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 Latin | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | except | except | ADP | _ | 5 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 Latin | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Latin | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Latin | case |
| 9 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | Nothing | Latin | tree rules |
Option 4
Vikings had no writing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 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 writing | det |
| 4 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 had | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Vikings | no writing | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Patient |
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