Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★
★★★ Lily plays a game: «A Plains warrior on horseback in the year 1300, epic!» What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: play, be · To what, where: game
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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: ★★★ Lily plays a game: «A Plains warrior on horseback in the year 1300, epic!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Lily | case |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 game | det |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 warrior | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 warrior | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 warrior | det |
| 11 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 warrior | compound |
| 12 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 horseback | case |
| 14 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 warrior | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horseback | nmod |
| 18 | 1300 | 1300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 year | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 epic | punct |
| 20 | epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 warrior | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 warrior | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 plays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | ★ ★ Lily | a game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent game=Theme clause=Eventuality |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Horses came back to the Americas with the Spanish, after 1492
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Americas | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Americas | det |
| 6 | Americas | AMERICAS | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Spanish | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Spanish | det |
| 9 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 1492 | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 1492 | case |
| 12 | 1492 | 1492 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | Horses | the Americas | after 1492 | with the Spanish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to americas=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Nothing; horses first came from America to Spain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 America | case |
| 7 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Spain | case |
| 9 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Nothing | Spain | America | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from america=Initial_Location to spain=Destination |
Option 3
Nothing; Plains peoples rode horses for a million years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 peoples | compound |
| 4 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 million | det |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Nothing | horses | year | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
Option 4
Only that the horse should really be a camel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 9 camel | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 be | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 be | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 be | aux |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 be | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 camel | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 camel | det |
| 9 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | a camel | tree rules |
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