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Test 8 · ★ · The First World War

At 11 a.m. on 11 November people in Britain go quiet for two minutes. Why then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: go · To what, where: 11 a.m.

This is test 8 · ★ 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: At 11 a.m. on 11 November people in Britain go quiet for two minutes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 a.m.	case
2	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 a.m.	nummod
3	a.m.	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 people	case
5	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 people	compound
6	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 11	nmod:unmarked
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 a.m.	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Britain	case
9	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 go	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 minutes	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 minutes	nummod
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present				11 a.m. on 11 people in Britain	minute	quiet property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at a.m.=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.

Sentence 2: Why then?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Why	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is when the war started in 1914

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	6 started	nsubj:outer
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 started	cop
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 started	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 war	det
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1914	case
8	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			1914		start property	tree rules

Option 2

It is the king's birthday, when he wakes up

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	6 birthday	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 birthday	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 birthday	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wakes	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 wakes	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wakes	nsubj
10	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 birthday	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 wakes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the king's birthday					tree rules
2	wake up	present	king						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That is the moment the fighting stopped in 1918

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 moment	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fighting	det
6	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moment	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1918	case
9	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the moment					tree rules
2	stop	past	the fighting	the moment not said here		1918			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality moment=Eventuality

Option 4

It is lunchtime

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	3 lunchtime	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lunchtime	cop
3	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	lunchtime					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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