Test 8 · ★ · Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages
A spooky museum leaflet shows an iron maiden "from 1350". What's a wise thought?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spooky museum leaflet · What happens: show, be · To what, where: iron maiden, 1350, wise thought
This is test 8 · ★ 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 spooky museum leaflet shows an iron maiden "from 1350".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaflet | det |
| 2 | spooky | spooky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaflet | amod |
| 3 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaflet | compound |
| 4 | leaflet | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maiden | compound |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 maiden | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 1350 | case |
| 11 | 1350 | 1350 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 maiden | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 maiden | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a spooky museum leaflet | a iron maiden | 1350 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient |
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 a wise thought?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | amod |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a wise thought | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It must be true, because museums are checked and can never be wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 checked | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 checked | mark |
| 7 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 checked | aux:pass |
| 9 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 true | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wrong | cc |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wrong | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 wrong | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wrong | cop |
| 14 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 true | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | It | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | present · passive | museums | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | can | wrong property | tree rules |
Option 2
It was surely used every day in 1350
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 used | advmod |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1350 | case |
| 8 | 1350 | 1350 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | It | 1350 | day | surely property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Historians think these were made much later for shows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 think | ccomp |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 later | advmod |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 made | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 shows | case |
| 9 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Historians | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | these | for shows; late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for show=Asset |
Option 4
It was made by Vikings for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Vikings | case |
| 5 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fun | case |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Vikings | It | for fun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Material for fun=Beneficiary |
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