Test 9 · ★★ · The Second World War

why did they bother making the UN after the war

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: bother, make · To what, where: UN

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	4 bother	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bother	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bother	nsubj
4	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bother	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 UN	det
7	UN	UN	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 making	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 war	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 war	det
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 making	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bother	past · do-support	they						tree rules
2	make	gerund	they not said here	the UN			after the war		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset un=Product

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

To organise a world football league with teams from every country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 organise	mark
2	organise	organise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 league	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 league	compound
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 league	compound
6	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 organise	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 teams	case
8	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 organise	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 organise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	organise	to-infinitive		a world football league		every country		with teams	tree rules

Option 2

To choose one king to rule the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 choose	mark
2	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 king	nummod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choose	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rule	mark
6	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 choose	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rule	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	to-infinitive		one king					tree rules
2	rule	to-infinitive		the world					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme

Option 3

To build more and bigger bombs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 build	mark
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 build	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bombs	cc
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bombs	amod
6	bombs	bomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To help countries settle quarrels by talking instead of fighting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 settle	advcl
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	obj
4	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 settle	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 talking	mark
7	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 settle	advcl
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 fighting	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 talking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive	you not said here	countries	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary
2	settle	imperative	you not said here	quarrels	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme quarrel=Location
3	talk	gerund	you not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fight	gerund	you not said here		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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