Test 2 · ★ · The First World War

If a war will be over by Christmas, why did the soldiers of 1914 find that so wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: war · What happens: be, do · To what, where: soldiers

This is test 2 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 over	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 war	det
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 over	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 over	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 over	cop
6	over	over	ADV	_	11 did	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Christmas	case
8	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 over	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 did	advmod
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soldiers	det
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 did	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 find	case
15	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 find	nummod
16	find	find	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soldiers	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wrong	nsubj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 wrong	advmod
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 find	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	future	a war					by Christmas; over property	tree rules
2	do	past		the soldiers of 1914 find					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality

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

It happened in one summer, from June to August

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 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 summer	nummod
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 June	punct
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 June	case
8	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 August	case
10	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 June	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				june; summer		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It ended before it really began

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 ended	nsubj
2	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 began	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 began	advmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ended	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	begin	past	it						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It lasted more than four years

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 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 four	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 more	fixed
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It lasted only a week

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 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 week	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lasted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				week		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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