Test 10 · ★ · The First World War

grandad wears a red poppy in november. why poppies, why not roses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad · What happens: wear · To what, where: red poppy

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 33 «The First World War» 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	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wears	nsubj
2	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poppy	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 poppy	amod
5	poppy	poppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wears	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 november	case
7	november	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 poppy	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wears	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 wears	conj
10	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 why	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 roses	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 roses	advmod
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 roses	advmod
14	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poppies	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	grandad	a red poppy				in november	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent poppy=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

Poppies grew on the battlefields of Flanders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 battlefields	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 battlefields	det
5	battlefields	battlefield	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Flanders	case
7	Flanders	flander	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 battlefields	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Poppies			the battlefields of Flanders			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on battlefield=Location

Option 2

Because of a football club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 club	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Because	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 club	det
4	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 club	compound
5	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Roses were banned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive		Roses					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Poppies are cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Poppies					cheap property	tree rules

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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