Test 5 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

did every colony just get handed freedom nice n easy

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colony · What happens: do, hand · To what, where: colony, freedom

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 colony	det
3	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 handed	advmod
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 handed	aux:pass
6	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 colony	acl
7	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handed	obj
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 freedom	amod
9	n	and	CCONJ	Abbr=Yes	10 easy	cc
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		every colony					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Eventuality
2	hand	present · passive	every colony not said here	freedom					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: freedom=Theme

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, and they paid the colonies too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 paid	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colonies	det
7	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	they	the colonies					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Asset

Option 2

No, but only in South America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 America	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 America	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 America	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 America	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 America	case
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 America	compound
7	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, every empire left politely and said sorry on the way out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 empire	det
4	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	politely	politely	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	every empire					politely property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: apologize	past	every empire not said here			the way		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, some like Algeria, Angola and Mozambique had to fight long wars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 Algeria	det
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Algeria	case
5	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Angola	punct
7	Angola	Angola	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Algeria	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Mozambique	cc
9	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Algeria	conj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fight	mark
12	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wars	amod
14	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	some Algeria and Angola and Mozambique						tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	some Algeria and Angola and Mozambique not said here	long wars					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Co-Agent

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