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Test 9 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

Britain and France drew straight-line borders for Iraq, Syria and Jordan. What earlier lesson does this match?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Britain · What happens: draw, do · To what, where: line borders, match

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Britain and France drew straight-line borders for Iraq, Syria and Jordan.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 France	cc
3	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Britain	conj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 borders	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 straight	punct
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 borders	compound
8	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drew	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 Iraq	case
10	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 borders	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Syria	punct
12	Syria	Syria	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Iraq	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Jordan	cc
14	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Iraq	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Britain and France	line borders				for Iraq and Syria and Jordan	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent border=Result for iraq=Beneficiary

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 earlier lesson does this match?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 lesson	amod
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 match	det
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		this match					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Borders always follow rivers and mountain ridges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 follow	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 follow	advmod
3	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 follow	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ridges	cc
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ridges	compound
7	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rivers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Borders	rivers and mountain ridges				always property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme

Option 2

Borders that never change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 change	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Borders	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	Borders						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Outsiders drawing borders on maps, as in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Outsiders	outsider	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Outsiders	acl
3	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drawing	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 maps	case
5	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drawing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Africa	punct
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Outsiders	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund	Outsiders as Africa not said here	borders		maps			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent border=Theme on map=Destination

Option 4

Borders drawn by local people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Borders	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle		Borders not said here				by local people	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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