Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★
"Yeah nah, Thailand was ruled by Britain like the rest round there," says a mate in Brisbane. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Britain, mate · What happens: rule, say · To what, where: Thailand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 64 «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» 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: "Yeah nah, Thailand was ruled by Britain like the rest round there," says a mate in Brisbane.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nah | punct |
| 2 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 nah | discourse |
| 3 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 ruled | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nah | punct |
| 5 | Thailand | Thailand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | aux:pass |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 says | ccomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Britain | case |
| 9 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 rest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 there | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mate | det |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Brisbane | case |
| 21 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mate | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule in a quote | past · passive | Britain | Thailand | there | like the rest | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a mate in Brisbane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, Thailand was British until 1965
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 British | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Thailand | Thailand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 British | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 British | cop |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | until | until | ADP | _ | 7 1965 | case |
| 7 | 1965 | 1965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 British | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Thailand | until 1965 | british property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, Thailand was never colonised by Europeans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 colonised | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Thailand | Thailand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 colonised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 colonised | aux:pass |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 colonised | advmod |
| 6 | colonised | colonis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Europeans | case |
| 8 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 colonised | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not colonis | past · passive | Europeans | Thailand | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, Thailand was ruled by France
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 ruled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Thailand | Thailand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ruled | aux:pass |
| 5 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ruled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past · passive | France | Thailand | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
Option 4
No, Thailand was ruled by Spain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 ruled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Thailand | Thailand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ruled | aux:pass |
| 5 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Spain | case |
| 7 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ruled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past · passive | Spain | Thailand | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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