Test 1 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

If a game map painted all of Ireland in English colours in 1337, what was the real picture?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: game map · What happens: paint, be · To what, where: Ireland, English colours, real picture

This is test 1 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 painted	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 map	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 map	compound
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painted	nsubj
5	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 picture	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Ireland	det
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ireland	case
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 painted	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 colours	case
10	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 colours	compound
11	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 painted	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1337	case
13	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 painted	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 painted	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 picture	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 picture	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 picture	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 picture	amod
19	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 picture	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint a condition, not said to happen	past	a game map	all Ireland		English colours		in 1337	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme in colour=Destination
2	is a	past		the real picture					tree rules

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

Scotland ruled the island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ruled	nsubj
2	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 island	det
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Scotland	the island					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme

Option 2

Ireland was nearly empty after the Black Death killed everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 empty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	cop
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 empty	advmod
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 killed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Death	det
7	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Death	flat
8	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 killed	nsubj
9	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	advcl
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ireland					empty, nearly property	tree rules
2	kill	past	the Black Death	everyone					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme

Option 3

England ruled every county

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ruled	nsubj
2	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 county	det
4	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	England	every county					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent county=Theme

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

Gaelic lords ruled most of the island outside the Pale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lords	amod
2	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ruled	nsubj
3	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 ruled	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 island	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 most	nmod
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 Pale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pale	det
10	Pale	pale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 island	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Gaelic lords	most of the island outside the Pale					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=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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