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Test 5 · ★ · Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages

A cartoon shows a medieval sailor scared of falling off the edge of the world. What should it show instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, medieval sailor · What happens: show, fall off · To what, where: medieval sailor, edge

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 18 «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths 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 a medieval sailor scared of falling off the edge of the world.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
5	medieval	medieval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sailor	amod
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sailor	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 scared	obl
9	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sailor	acl
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 edge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 edge	det
12	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falling	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 edge	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a medieval sailor					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sailor=Recipient
2	fall off	gerund	a medieval sailor not said here	the edge of the world					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient edge=Extent

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 should it show instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 show	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	should	cartoon					instead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The world really did have an edge back in those days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 days	det
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have back	past · do-support	the world	a edge			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient

Option 2

Ships quite often sailed off the edge and were lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sailed	nsubj
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	3 often	advmod
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 sailed	advmod
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lost	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sailed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	participle	Ships			the edge		often property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent off edge=Trajectory
2	lose	past · passive	Ships not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»

Option 3

Every sailor was terrified of the edge of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sailor	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 terrified	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 terrified	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	every sailor					of the edge of the sea; terrified property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Educated people knew the Earth was round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 round	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 round	cop
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	educate speech: other	participle							vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	know	past	Educated people						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the Earth					round property	tree rules

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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