Test 5 · Britain and Ireland: a short story

How can the king be the head of the country but not decide politics?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, head · What happens: be, not decide · To what, where: head, politics

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 head	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 head	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 head	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 decide	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 decide	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 decide	advmod
13	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 decide	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 decide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	the king	the head				of the country	tree rules
2	not decide	infinitive	the head	politics					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent politics=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

Nobody leads Britain at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 leads	nsubj
2	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 leads	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 leads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	Nobody	Britain		all			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent britain=Theme at all=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Parliament was closed in 1066

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 closed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 closed	aux:pass
3	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1066	case
5	1066	1066	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 closed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past · passive		Parliament				in 1066	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in 1066=Topic

Option 3

He secretly decides everything behind closed doors every week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 decides	nsubj
2	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 decides	advmod
3	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 decides	obj
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 doors	case
6	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 doors	amod
7	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decides	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	He	everything		closed doors	week	secretly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
2	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He reigns as a symbol, but the elected government rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reigns	nsubj
2	reigns	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 symbol	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 symbol	det
5	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reigns	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rules	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 rules	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rules	det
9	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 rules	amod
10	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rules	compound
11	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reigns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reign	present	He	the elected government rules				as a symbol	tree rules
2	elect	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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