Test 7 · ★★★ · Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts

«what did the yanks learn from the french failing in panama» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yanks, french failing · What happens: do, learn, be · To what, where: french failing, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 yanks	det
5	yanks	yank	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	nsubj
6	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 failing	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 failing	det
9	french	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 failing	amod
10	failing	failing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learn	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 panama	case
12	panama	panama	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 failing	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 panama	punct
14	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 failing	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do in a quote	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn in a quote	present	the yanks		the french failing in panama and the best answer	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from failing=Source
3	be speech: assert	present	the french failing in panama and the best answer	the best answer		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 · ← Mova's choice

To give up on canals and build a railway instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 give	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 canals	case
5	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 build	cc
7	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 railway	det
9	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 build	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	to-infinitive				canals			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	build	present		a railway				instead property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset railway=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To fight the mosquitoes that spread disease, and to use locks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fight	mark
2	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 use	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mosquitoes	det
4	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fight	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 spread	nsubj
6	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mosquitoes	acl:relcl
7	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 use	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 use	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 use	mark
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fight	to-infinitive		the mosquitoes	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mosquito=Co-Agent
2	spread	present	the mosquitoes	disease	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme
3	use	to-infinitive		locks	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient

Option 3

To dig with machines only and never use any human workers at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dig	mark
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 machines	case
4	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	obl
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 dig	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 use	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 use	advmod
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 dig	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 workers	det
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 workers	amod
11	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	to-infinitive						with machines	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with machine=Instrument
2	not use	infinitive		any human workers		all			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient

Option 4

To build the canal through Nicaragua instead of Panama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 build	mark
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 canal	det
4	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 Nicaragua	case
6	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 build	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 Panama	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	Panama	Panama	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive		the canal		Nicaragua		instead Panama	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset canal=Product

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