Test 2 · ★★ · The Second World War

Why could fear and hard times in the 1930s help dictators?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: fear, help · To what, where: 1930s, dictators

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 34 «The Second 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	3 fear	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fear	aux
3	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 times	cc
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 times	amod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fear	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 1930s	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 1930s	det
9	1930s	1930	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 fear	obl
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 fear	conj
11	dictators	dictator	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 help	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	could				the 1930s			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	help	infinitive		dictators					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dictator=Beneficiary

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

Dictators gave every family a big bag of money each week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dictators	dictator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bag	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bag	amod
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 money	case
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bag	nmod
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Dictators	every family			week		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient bag=Theme

Option 2

People voted for war on purpose because they liked fighting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 voted	nsubj
2	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 war	case
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 voted	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 voted	obl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 liked	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 voted	advcl
10	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	vote	past	People	purpose	for war goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for war=Goal
2	like	past	People			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	fight	gerund				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Hard times always make people kinder to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 times	amod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 kinder	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Hard times	people				always, kind property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Frightened people were drawn to leaders who promised strength and blamed others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawn	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drawn	aux:pass
4	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 leaders	case
6	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawn	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 promised	nsubj
8	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leaders	acl:relcl
9	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promised	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blamed	cc
11	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promised	conj
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	draw	past · passive		Frightened people	leaders	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to leader=Destination
2	promise speech: promise	past	leaders	strength		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
3	blame	past	leaders not said here	others		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme

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