Test 11 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

how'd people eat before there were farms

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: 'd people, farms · What happens: eat, be

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 'd	advmod
2	'd	'd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 were	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 were	expl
7	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	ccomp
8	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 were	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	'd people						tree rules
2	be	past	farms			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They did not eat until farms came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · do-support	They						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	farms						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They ate only fish from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fish	advmod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	They	fish		the sea			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They hunted animals and gathered wild plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunted	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gathered	cc
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hunted	conj
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plants	amod
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gathered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	They	animals					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	gather	past	They not said here	wild plants					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme

Option 4

They bought food in shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 shops	case
5	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	They	food		shops			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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