Test 5 · Ancient times and famous stories

"The Trojan Horse 100% happened, it's in a really old poem" What's the fairest reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, old poem · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: old poem, fairest reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 happened	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Horse	det
3	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Horse	amod
4	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 %	compound
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Horse	flat
6	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	7 happened	nsubj
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 poem	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 happened	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 poem	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 poem	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 poem	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 poem	det
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 poem	amod
15	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 reply	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 reply	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 reply	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reply	det
20	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 reply	amod
21	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poem	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 poem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen in a quote	past				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	it		a old poem	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present	a old poem	the fairest reply		tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Troy was real, but the horse is a legend with no evidence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 legend	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 legend	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 legend	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 legend	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 legend	det
10	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 real	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 evidence	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 evidence	det
13	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 legend	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Troy					real property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the horse	a legend				with no evidence	tree rules

Option 2

It happened, because old poems like that one are always true

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	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 true	mark
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poems	amod
6	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 true	nsubj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 one	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poems	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 true	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 true	advmod
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happened	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	old poems like that one					always, true property	tree rules

Option 3

Troy never existed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 existed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 existed	advmod
3	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 existed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past	Troy			all			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

The horse was real but Troy was made up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
6	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 real	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the horse					real property	tree rules
2	make up	past · passive		Troy					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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