Test 9 · ★ · The First World War

Why did people call it the war to end all wars?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: call, end · To what, where: it, wars · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 call	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 end	mark
9	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 call	advcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 wars	det
11	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 end	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	people	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	end	to-infinitive	people not said here	all wars					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=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 had no fighting

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fighting	det
4	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	no fighting					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fighting=Patient

Option 2

It was the very first war

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 war	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 war	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 war	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 first	advmod
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 war	amod
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the first war					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It ended every war in history, and there has never been one since

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	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ended	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 history	case
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 war	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 has	expl
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ended	conj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 one	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 one	cop
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 has	obj
14	since	since	ADV	_	13 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	end	past	It	every war	history		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality
2	have	present			there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	participle		one		since property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They hoped such a terrible war would never happen again

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	2 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 war	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 war	det
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 war	amod
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happen	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 happen	advmod
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hoped	ccomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 happen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	They						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not happen	would	such terrible war				again		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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