Test 3 · ★ · The First World War

Why could neither side break through on the Western Front for years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: break through · To what, where: side, Western Front

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 side	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 side	aux
3	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	4 side	det
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	obl
5	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	5 break	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 Front	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Front	det
9	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Front	amod
10	Front	Front	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 break	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 break	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 break	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break through	present		neither side		the Western Front	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on front=Location

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 trenches were filled with water every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trenches	det
2	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 filled	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	aux:pass
4	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive		the trenches			day	with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument

Option 2

They were not allowed to move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 move	mark
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	past · passive		They					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	move not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both sides were dug into strong trenches with deadly new weapons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sides	det
2	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dug	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dug	aux:pass
4	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 trenches	case
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trenches	amod
7	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dug	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 weapons	case
9	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weapons	amod
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weapons	amod
11	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past · passive		both sides		strong trenches		with deadly new weapons	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: subject=Theme with weapon=Instrument

Option 4

Nobody wanted to win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 win	mark
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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