Test 5 · ★ · The First World War
A cartoon shows the First World War fought only by Britain and Germany. What is missing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, First World War · What happens: show, fight, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon shows the First World War fought only by Britain and Germany.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 War | det |
| 5 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 War | amod |
| 6 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 War | compound |
| 7 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fought | nsubj |
| 8 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | ccomp |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 Britain | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Britain | case |
| 11 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fought | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Germany | cc |
| 13 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Britain | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | the First World War | by Britain and Germany | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: What is missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Dinosaurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nothing, only two countries fought, and only for a few days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 two | advmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 countries | nummod |
| 5 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fought | nsubj |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 days | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 days | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 days | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 days | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 days | amod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Nothing | day | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The Romans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Romans | det |
| 2 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Soldiers from many countries and empires around the world
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 countries | amod |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Soldiers | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 empires | cc |
| 6 | empires | empire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Soldiers | conj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soldiers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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