Test 9 · ★ · Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them
Kid at school: "My cousin says wars never end, like EVER, they just go on." Put him right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kid, wars, you · What happens: say, not end, go on, put · To what, where: Kid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 51 «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» of the adult life 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: Kid at school: "My cousin says wars never end, like EVER, they just go on."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 school | case |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 end | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 end | advmod |
| 11 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 EVER | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 EVER | case |
| 14 | EVER | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 end | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Kid at school | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not end in a quote | present | wars | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go on in a quote | present | wars = war | vn function-105.2.1 «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.
Sentence 2: Put him right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | Kid | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Wars end only when one side is all gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 end | nsubj |
| 2 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 gone | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 gone | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 side | nummod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | cop |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 gone | advmod |
| 9 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 end | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | Wars | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | one side | all, gone property | tree rules |
Option 2
He's right; no war in the whole of history has ever really ended
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 war | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 whole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whole | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 war | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 history | case |
| 11 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whole | obl |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | csubj |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 has | advmod |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 ended | advmod |
| 15 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 has | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | no war | ever | ended property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Wars end only when the news stops filming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 end | nsubj |
| 2 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 stops | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 stops | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 end | advcl |
| 8 | filming | film | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stops | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | Wars | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | the news | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | film | gerund | the news not said here | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Many wars have ended, and peace is work people do every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wars | amod |
| 2 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | aux |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 7 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | compound |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | cop |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | compound |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | parataxis |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present · perfect · passive | Many wars | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | peace work | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | present | work people | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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