Test 3 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

Why did food leaving Ireland during the famine make people so angry?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: food · What happens: do, leave, make · To what, where: Ireland, people

This is test 3 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
4	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 food	acl
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 leaving	obj
6	during	during	ADP	_	8 famine	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 famine	det
8	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaving	obl
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 angry	advmod
12	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	gerund	food not said here	Ireland	during the famine		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme
3	make	present	food	people		angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material people=Product

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 · ← Mova's choice

Ships took only the best potatoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 potatoes	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 potatoes	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 potatoes	amod
6	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Ships	the best potatoes					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People were starving while food was shipped away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 starving	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 starving	aux
3	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 shipped	mark
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shipped	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shipped	aux:pass
7	shipped	ship	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 starving	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 shipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	People						tree rules
2	ship away	past · passive		food				away property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

The food was poisoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poisoned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poisoned	aux:pass
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	past · passive		the food					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The food went to France as a gift from the British king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 France	case
5	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 gift	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gift	det
8	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
11	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	amod
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the food			France		as a gift; from the British king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to france=Initial_Location from king=Destination

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