Test 5 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

Why does Martin Luther King Jr.'s way of protest still inspire people?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way · What happens: be, inspire · To what, where: people

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 31 «Slavery and its abolition» 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=Rel	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod:poss
4	Luther	Luther	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Martin	flat
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Martin	flat
6	Jr.	Jr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Martin	flat
7	's	's	PART	_	3 Martin	case
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 protest	case
10	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inspire	obl
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 inspire	advmod
12	inspire	inspire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl:relcl
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 inspire	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Martin's way					why property	tree rules
2	inspire	infinitive	Martin's way not said here	people			still	of protest	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

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

He wrote the first computer program for the government

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 program	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 program	amod
5	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 program	compound
6	program	program	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 government	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 government	det
9	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	He	the first computer program				for the government	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent program=Result for government=Beneficiary

Option 2

He won a war with tanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 tanks	case
6	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	He	a war				with tanks	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He used peaceful marches and powerful words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marches	amod
4	marches	march	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 words	cc
6	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 marches	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	He	peaceful marches and powerful words					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Patient

Option 4

He became a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	He	a king					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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