Test 4 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

does Ireland have more people now than before the famine?

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

This is test 4 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	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
2	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 famine	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 famine	case
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 famine	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 famine	det
10	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	Ireland	more people				than the famine	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

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

Yes, ten times more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 more	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 more	obl:unmarked
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, the island still has fewer than in 1841

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 island	det
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 has	advmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 has	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 1841	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1841	case
10	1841	1841	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 fewer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the island	fewer			still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient

Option 3

Yes, exactly double the number it had back in 1841

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 double	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 double	advmod
4	double	double	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 double	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 number	acl:relcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1841	case
11	1841	1841	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 double	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	imperative	you not said here	the number		1841		exactly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	have back	past	number	the number not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient

Option 4

No, nobody lives there now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lives	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	nobody			there	now		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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