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Test 1 · Britain and Ireland: a short story

Welsh kid at school asks why Wales isn't on the Union Jack. What's the answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Welsh kid, answer · What happens: ask, not be, be · To what, where: Wales Union Jack

This is test 1 of lesson 37 «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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: Welsh kid at school asks why Wales isn't on the Union Jack.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kid	nmod
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asks	advmod
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Jack	compound
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Jack	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 Jack	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 Jack	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Jack	det
12	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Jack	compound
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 why	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Welsh kid at school						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present				the Wales Union Jack			tree rules

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: What's the answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Wales joined in 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 joined	nsubj
2	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 2000	case
4	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 joined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past	Wales					in 2000	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 2000=Theme

Option 2

Wales is the blue part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 part	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wales	the blue part					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The flag combines England's, Scotland's and Ireland's crosses, and Wales is not shown

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flag	det
2	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 combines	nsubj
3	combines	combine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 crosses	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 England	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Scotland	punct
7	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 England	conj
8	's	's	PART	_	4 England	case
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Ireland	cc
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 crosses	compound
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Ireland	case
12	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 combines	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shown	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shown	cc
15	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 shown	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 shown	aux:pass
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 shown	advmod
18	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 combines	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	present	the flag	England and Scotland's Ireland crosses					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Patient
2	not show	present · passive		Wales					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

Wales has its own flag hidden inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flag	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flag	amod
5	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flag	acl
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 hidden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Wales	its own flag					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient
2	hide	participle		its own flag not said here				inside property	vn concealment-16-1 «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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