Test 1 · Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth

my mate reckons Brexit happened in 2016. not quite, is it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Brexit · What happens: reckon, happen, be · To what, where: 2016, it

This is test 1 of lesson 38 «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Brexit	Brexit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 2016	case
7	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 happened	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 quite	advmod
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	3 reckons	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 it	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 it	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckons	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reckon	present	my mate			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	happen	past	Brexit		2016	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 2016=Location
3	is a	present	my mate not said here	it		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 · ← Mova's choice

No, Brexit happened in 1945

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Brexit	Brexit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1945	case
6	1945	1945	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Brexit			1945			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1945=Location

Option 2

No, the UK is still in the EU

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 EU	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 UK	det
4	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 EU	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 EU	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	9 EU	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 EU	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 EU	det
9	EU	EU	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the UK			the EU	still		tree rules

Option 3

Yes, the UK left the EU on the very day of the vote

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 UK	det
4	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 EU	det
7	EU	EU	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 day	advmod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 vote	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vote	det
14	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the UK	the EU			day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eu=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The vote was in 2016, but the UK left in 2020

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vote	det
2	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 2016	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 2016	case
5	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 vote	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 UK	det
9	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 2020	case
12	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				2016			tree rules
2	leave	past	the vote					in 2020 result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2020=Result

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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