Test 12 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines
A cartoon shows Cleopatra watching the Great Pyramid being built. Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, you · What happens: show, watch, build, fix · To what, where: Cleopatra, Great Pyramid, Pyramid
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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 Cleopatra watching the Great Pyramid being built.
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 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 shows | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pyramid | det |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Pyramid | amod |
| 8 | Pyramid | Pyramid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 watching | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | Cleopatra | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cleopatra=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | a cartoon not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | build | gerund · passive | the Great Pyramid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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: Fix it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Fix | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | Pyramid | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The pyramid was already over 2,000 years old in her time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pyramid | det |
| 2 | pyramid | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 old | cop |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 old | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 2,000 | advmod |
| 6 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 old | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 time | nmod:poss |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 old | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pyramid | time; year | old property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The pyramid was built after she died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pyramid | det |
| 2 | pyramid | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 died | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the pyramid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | die | past | she | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
She built it herself in AD 30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | obj |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 built | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 AD | case |
| 6 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obl |
| 7 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 AD | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | She | it | AD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary herself=Product |
Option 4
She did watch it, in 2560 BC
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watch | aux |
| 3 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watch | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 2560 | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 2560 | case |
| 7 | 2560 | 2560 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 watch | obl |
| 8 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 2560 | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · do-support | She | it | 2560 BC | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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