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Test 9 · ★ · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

A friend says France was always one united kingdom. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, France · What happens: say, be · To what, where: one united kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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

Sentence 1: A friend says France was always one united kingdom.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kingdom	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kingdom	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 kingdom	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 kingdom	nummod
8	united	united	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kingdom	amod
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	France	one united kingdom				always property	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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing, France never changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 changed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 changed	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 changed	advmod
5	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	past	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

France was only Paris until 1900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Paris	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Paris	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 Paris	advmod
4	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	6 1900	case
6	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Paris	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	France	Paris			until 1900		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

France was ruled by Russia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ruled	aux:pass
3	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Russia	case
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past · passive	Russia	France					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Kings slowly absorbed lands such as Burgundy and Brittany

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 absorbed	nsubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 absorbed	advmod
3	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 absorbed	obj
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	7 Burgundy	case
6	as	as	ADP	_	5 such	fixed
7	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lands	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Brittany	cc
9	Brittany	Brittany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Burgundy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	past	Kings	lands				such Burgundy and Brittany; slowly property	vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal land=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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