Test 10 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

wait, Turkey isn't the Ottoman Empire?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Turkey · What happens: wait, not be · To what, where: Ottoman Empire

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Empire	punct
3	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Empire	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Empire	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 Empire	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Empire	det
7	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Empire	compound
8	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	present	Turkey	the Ottoman Empire					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

Yes, the sultan still rules it from his palace in Istanbul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 rules	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sultan	det
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 rules	advmod
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rules	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 palace	nmod:poss
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Istanbul	case
12	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 palace	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, the empire ended in 1922 and the republic began in 1923

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 empire	det
4	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ended	nsubj
5	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1922	case
7	1922	1922	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 ended	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 republic	det
10	republic	republic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ended	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1923	case
13	1923	1923	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 began	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	the empire			1922			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	begin	past	the republic			1923			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

No, Turkey was part of Greece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 part	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 part	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 part	cop
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Greece	case
7	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Turkey	part				of Greece	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is the same empire under a new flag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 empire	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 empire	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 empire	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 empire	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 empire	amod
7	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	under	under	ADP	_	11 flag	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 flag	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flag	amod
11	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 empire	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the same empire		a new flag			tree rules

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