Test 7 · Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth

oi, is the UN some kind of world government that bosses everyone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: UN · What happens: be, boss · To what, where: UN, everyone

This is test 7 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	oi	oi	ADV	_	5 UN	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 oi	punct
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 UN	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 UN	det
5	UN	UN	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bosses	nsubj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bosses	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 government	case
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 government	compound
10	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 bosses	nsubj
12	bosses	boss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 bosses	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 bosses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the UN					tree rules
2	boss	present	the UN		everyone				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it rules every country directly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 rules	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rules	nsubj
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rules	appos
7	directly	directly	ADV	_	4 rules	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's a club of countries that talk and work together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 club	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 club	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 club	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 club	det
6	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 countries	case
8	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 club	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 talk	nsubj
10	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 countries	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 work	cc
12	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	conj
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a club	of countries	tree rules
2	talk	present	countries			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work together	present	countries not said here		together property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, its army controls all borders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 controls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 controls	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 army	nmod:poss
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 controls	nsubj
5	controls	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 borders	det
7	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 controls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	control	present	its army	all borders					vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Theme

Option 4

No, it only runs New York

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 runs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 runs	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 runs	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 runs	advmod
5	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 York	flat
7	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	it	New York					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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