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Test 8 · ★★ · The Second World War

D-Day needed ships, planes and soldiers from many countries at once. Why so big?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: D · What happens: need · To what, where: ships, many countries

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: D-Day needed ships, planes and soldiers from many countries at once.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 D	punct
3	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 needed	nsubj
4	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 planes	punct
7	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ships	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 soldiers	cc
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ships	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 countries	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 countries	amod
12	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needed	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 needed	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 needed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	D	ships and planes and soldiers		many countries			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ship=Theme

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 so big?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 big	advmod
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Landing on a guarded coast needed a huge force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Landing	land	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 needed	csubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 coast	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coast	det
4	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 coast	amod
5	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Landing	obl
6	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 force	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 force	amod
9	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	gerund				a guarded coast			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on coast=Destination
2	guard	participle							vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	need	past	Landing	a huge force					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme

Option 2

Only one boat was used

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 boat	nummod
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		one boat					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

It was a race

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	4 race	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 race	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 race	det
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

They were going on holiday

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	3 going	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	They			holiday			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location

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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