Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★
★★★ A game's Roman market stall sells potatoes, wheat bread, olives and grapes. Which item is the slip?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, item · What happens: sell, be · To what, where: potatoes, slip
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ A game's Roman market stall sells potatoes, wheat bread, olives and grapes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sells | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 9 stall | case |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stall | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 game | case |
| 7 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stall | amod |
| 8 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stall | compound |
| 9 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 10 | sells | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sells | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bread | punct |
| 13 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bread | compound |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 potatoes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 olives | punct |
| 16 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 potatoes | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grapes | cc |
| 18 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 potatoes | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | ★ ★ a game's Roman market stall | potatoes and wheat bread and olives and grapes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=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: Which item is the slip?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 item | det |
| 2 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slip | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slip | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slip | det |
| 5 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 slip | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which item | the slip | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Grapes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Olives
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Potatoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Wheat bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bread | compound |
| 2 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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