Test 9 · Britain and Ireland: a short story
Ireland went from long conflict to peace in 1998. What does that show?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ireland, that · What happens: go, show · To what, where: peace, long conflict
This is test 9 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: Ireland went from long conflict to peace in 1998.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 conflict | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 conflict | amod |
| 5 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 peace | mark |
| 7 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1998 | case |
| 9 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ireland | peace | long conflict | in 1998 | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from conflict=Initial_Location |
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 does that show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Conflicts can never really end, they only stop for a while
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 end | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 end | advmod |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Conflicts | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 stop | advmod |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Conflicts end | while | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
Nothing changed in 1998
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Nothing | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1998 | case |
| 4 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 changed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | 1998 | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Peace can be made even after long troubles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 troubles | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 troubles | case |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 troubles | amod |
| 8 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can · passive | Peace | after long troubles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 4
Peace only comes from winning a war
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 5 winning | mark |
| 5 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comes | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 war | det |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 winning | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Peace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | win | gerund | Peace not said here | a war | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality |
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