Test 4 · ★★ · The Second World War

Why do millions of people still read Anne Frank's diary?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, read · To what, where: millions, diary

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 read	advcl
3	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 millions	nmod
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 read	advmod
7	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Frank	compound
9	Frank	Frank	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 diary	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Frank	case
11	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 read	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		millions of people					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Eventuality
2	read	past		Anne Frank's diary			still		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Topic

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

It was written by a general after the 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	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 general	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 general	det
6	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 war	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 war	det
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive	a general	It			after the war		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

It is a big book of maps of Europe

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	5 book	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 book	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 book	amod
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 maps	case
7	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 book	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Europe	case
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 maps	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a big book				of maps of Europe	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It shows one real girl's life and helps us understand the Holocaust

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 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 girl	nummod
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 life	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 girl	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 helps	cc
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	conj
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 helps	obj
11	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helps	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Holocaust	det
13	Holocaust	Holocaust	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	present	It	one real girl's life	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Recipient
2	help	present		us	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	understand	infinitive	us not said here	the Holocaust	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer holocaust=Stimulus

Option 4

It is a funny adventure story about pirates on a desert island

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 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
5	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 pirates	case
8	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 story	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 island	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 island	det
11	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 island	compound
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pirates	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a funny adventure story				about pirates on a desert island	tree rules

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