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Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

★★★ A cartoon shows Cleopatra snacking on chocolate. «It's giving ancient queen», says Ava. What's the real spot?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, chocolate, Ava, real spot · What happens: show, snack, give, say, be · To what, where: Cleopatra, ancient queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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 cartoon shows Cleopatra snacking on chocolate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shows	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 cartoon	case
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cartoon	det
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shows	obj
8	snacking	snack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 shows	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 chocolate	case
10	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snacking	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	★ ★ a cartoon		Cleopatra				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cleopatra=Recipient
2	snack	gerund						on chocolate	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on chocolate=Patient

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: «It's giving ancient queen», says Ava.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 giving	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giving	aux
4	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 says	ccomp
5	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 queen	amod
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giving	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present · progressive	chocolate	ancient queen					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Ava						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Sentence 3: What's the real spot?

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	5 spot	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spot	amod
5	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real spot						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only the shiny wrapper is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 wrapper	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wrapper	det
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wrapper	amod
4	wrapper	wrapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrong	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Nothing; cocoa grew all over Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cocoa	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 Egypt	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 Egypt	case
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Nothing cocoa			Egypt			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over egypt=Location

Option 3

Chocolate had been banned in Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banned	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 banned	aux:pass
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Egypt	case
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · perfect · passive		Chocolate		Egypt			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Chocolate came from the Americas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Americas	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Americas	det
5	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Chocolate			the Americas			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from americas=Initial_Location

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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