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Test 10 · Ancient times and famous stories

Your friend thinks all Stone Age people lived in caves. What could you show them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Age people, you · What happens: think, live, show · To what, where: caves, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 21 «Ancient times and famous stories» 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: Your friend thinks all Stone Age people lived in caves.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 people	det
5	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Age	compound
6	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 people	compound
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 caves	case
10	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Your friend						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	live	past	all Age people			caves			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

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 could you show them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	could	you	people					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient they=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A photograph of a cave taken during the Stone Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 photograph	det
2	photograph	photograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cave	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cave	det
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 photograph	nmod
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 photograph	acl
7	during	during	ADP	_	10 Age	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Age	det
9	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Age	compound
10	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle		a photograph of a cave not said here			during the Stone Age		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A modern house with stone walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 walls	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	compound
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 house	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A cartoon of a family in a cave

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	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 family	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cartoon	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cave	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cartoon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cartoon			a family		a cave			nom cartoon «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Remains of huts and camps found in the open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 found	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 huts	case
3	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Remains	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 camps	cc
5	camps	camp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 huts	conj
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 open	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 open	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	participle · passive		Remains of huts and camps		the open			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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