Test 10 · ★★ · King David and King Solomon

A judge follows up: «Do historians agree how big Solomon's kingdom was?»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: judge, historians, kingdom · What happens: follow up, agree, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 9 «King David and King Solomon» of the religion ethics 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follows	nsubj
3	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 follows	compound:prt
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 agree	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 agree	punct
7	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 agree	aux
8	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 agree	nsubj
9	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 follows	parataxis
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 big	advmod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 agree	ccomp
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 kingdom	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Solomon	case
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 big	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 big	cop
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 agree	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	follow up	present	a judge		tree rules
2	agree speech: agree in a quote	infinitive · do-support	historians		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	Solomon's kingdom	big property	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

Yes, it was bigger than Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bigger	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	cop
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 Rome	case
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					than Rome; big property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, historians debate its size and wealth; it is disputed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 debate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 debate	nsubj
4	debate	debate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 size	nmod:poss
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 debate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wealth	cc
8	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 size	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 disputed	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 disputed	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 disputed	aux:pass
12	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 debate	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	debate	present	historians	its size and wealth					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Co-Agent
2	dispute	present · passive		wealth					tree rules

Option 3

No, because Solomon never had a kingdom in any account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
4	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kingdom	det
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 account	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 account	det
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	Solomon	a kingdom		any account			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient

Option 4

Yes, it covered all of Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 covered	nsubj
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 covered	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Africa	case
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	it	all					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Destination

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