Test 5 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

Why was Gutenberg's printing so important?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: printing, Gutenberg · What happens: be, print

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Gutenberg	Gutenberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 printing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Gutenberg	case
5	printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 important	advmod
7	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 printing	amod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gutenberg's printing					why property	tree rules
2	print		Gutenberg						nom printing «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

It made the first maps of the world

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maps	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 maps	amod
5	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maps	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	the first maps of the world					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material map=Product

Option 2

It let people read in the dark

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 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	obj
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	It	people					tree rules
2	read	infinitive	people not said here			the dark			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It was the first time anyone wrote anything down

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	7 wrote	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrote	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 anyone	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 anyone	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anyone	compound
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wrote	nsubj
7	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wrote	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 wrote	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					write property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Books could be made quickly, so many more people could read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 read	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 read	aux
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could · passive		Books				quickly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	read	could	many more people						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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