Test 6 · Britain and Ireland: a short story
The British Empire is shown on a map as only good. What is fairer?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: show, be · To what, where: British Empire, map
This is test 6 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: The British Empire is shown on a map as only good.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empire | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Empire | amod |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shown | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shown | aux:pass |
| 5 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 map | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 map | det |
| 8 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shown | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 good | mark |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shown | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | the British Empire | a map | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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 is fairer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fairer | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fairer | cop |
| 3 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fairer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It was only bad and did nothing else
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 bad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bad | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 bad | advmod |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 did | cc |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bad | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 did | obj |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 nothing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
Option 2
It never existed
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 existed | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 existed | advmod |
| 3 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exist | past | It | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It spread laws and English but also ruled people without their consent
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 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spread | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 English | cc |
| 5 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 laws | conj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 ruled | cc |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 ruled | advmod |
| 8 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spread | conj |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ruled | obj |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 consent | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 consent | nmod:poss |
| 12 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ruled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | It | laws and English | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location law=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | people | without people's consent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result | ||||
| 3 | consent | people | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
It was only good and every person it ruled was glad to be part of it
The tree, 16 words
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 good | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glad | cc |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glad | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ruled | nsubj |
| 9 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 person | acl:relcl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 glad | cop |
| 11 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 part | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 part | cop |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glad | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 part | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | person | every person not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent person=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | every person | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | every person not said here | part | of person | tree rules |
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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