Test 4 · The Industrial Revolution

Why do you get Saturday and Sunday off school and many grown-ups get them off work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many grown ups · What happens: get, grow · To what, where: school, them

This is test 4 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» of the history 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 get	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Sunday	cc
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Saturday	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 get	cc
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ups	amod
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ups	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct
14	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 get	nsubj
15	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	18 work	case
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	you		school	saturday		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme off school=Destination
2	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	many grown ups	them = they			off work	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 always like that, since Roman times

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 that	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 that	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 that	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 that	punct
7	since	since	ADP	_	9 times	case
8	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 times	amod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 that	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				time	like that; always property	tree rules

Option 2

A computer chose it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 computer	det
2	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	nsubj
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	a computer	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Workers fought together for the weekend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 fought	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 weekend	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weekend	det
6	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Workers				weekend	together property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Railways needed two days to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rest	mark
6	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	Railways				day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	rest	to-infinitive	Railways not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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