Test 8 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

Which happened last?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	last	last	ADV	_	2 happened	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						last property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

The Soviet Union broke up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Union	det
2	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Union	compound
3	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 broke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break up	past	the Soviet Union						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The Ottoman Empire came to an end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Empire	det
2	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Empire	compound
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Ottoman Empire				to a end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

Option 3

India won independence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	India	independence					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Eventuality

Option 4

The Year of Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Year	det
2	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Africa	case
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Year	nmod

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

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