--- title: You say "egg", "knife" and "sky" at breakfast. Who gave English thos… — The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings · tree and pragmatics description: You say "egg", "knife" and "sky" at breakfast. Who gave English those words? 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Who gave English those words? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** say, give · **To what, where:** egg, breakfast, words, English · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 of lesson 20 «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* You say "egg", "knife" and "sky" at breakfast. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:t5:1 # text = You say "egg", "knife" and "sky" at breakfast. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | You | egg and knife and sky | | breakfast | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent egg=Topic | 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:* Who gave English those words? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:t5:2 # text = Who gave English those words? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 4 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | | that words | English | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent english=Recipient word=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} The Romans ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:t5:o1:1 # text = The Romans 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The Norse ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:t5:o2:1 # text = The Norse 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Norse norse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The Aztecs ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:t5:o3:1 # text = The Aztecs 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Aztecs Aztec PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} The Greeks ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:t5:o4:1 # text = The Greeks 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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