Test 8 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

Why did people say the destruction of Juukan Gorge was a terrible loss?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people, destruction · What happens: say, be, destroy · To what, where: terrible loss, Juukan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 destruction	det
6	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loss	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Juukan	case
8	Juukan	Juukan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 destruction	nmod
9	Gorge	Gorge	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Juukan	flat
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 loss	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 loss	det
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 loss	amod
13	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the destruction of Juukan	a terrible loss	tree rules
3	destroy			Juukan	nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient

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

It was a car park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 park	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 park	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 park	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 park	compound
5	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a car park					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It held 46,000 years of Aboriginal history

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	46,000	46,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 held	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 history	case
6	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 history	amod
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	It				year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It was a brand new shopping centre with lots of shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 centre	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 centre	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 centre	det
4	brand	brand	ADV	_	5 new	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 centre	amod
6	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 centre	compound
7	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 lots	case
9	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 centre	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 shops	case
11	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a new shopping centre				with lots of shops	tree rules

Option 4

It was an empty quarry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quarry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarry	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quarry	det
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quarry	amod
5	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a empty quarry					tree rules

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