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Test 3 · Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth

A friend says every Commonwealth country was once a British colony. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Commonwealth country · What happens: say, be · To what, where: British colony · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: A friend says every Commonwealth country was once a British colony.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 country	det
5	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 country	compound
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 colony	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 colony	cop
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 colony	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 colony	det
10	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 colony	amod
11	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	every Commonwealth country	a British colony				once property	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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only France is in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 France	advmod
2	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 is	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	France			it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

Option 2

Nothing, every member was a colony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 colony	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 member	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 member	det
4	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 colony	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 colony	det
7	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nothing	a colony					tree rules

Option 3

The Commonwealth has no members at all, only a flag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Commonwealth	det
2	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 members	det
5	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 members	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flag	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 flag	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 flag	det
11	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 members	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Commonwealth	no members and a flag		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some, like Rwanda and Mozambique, never were

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 Rwanda	det
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Rwanda	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 Rwanda	case
4	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 were	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Mozambique	cc
6	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Rwanda	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Rwanda	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 were	advmod
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	some Rwanda and Mozambique						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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