Test 10 · ★★ · The United States: a short story

ok so obama 2008, why's that such a big deal

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big deal

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 38 «The United States: 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	3 obama	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 obama	advmod
3	obama	obama	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	2008	2008	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 obama	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deal	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 deal	advmod
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 deal	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 deal	mark
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 deal	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 deal	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deal	amod
12	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obama	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		such big deal					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He was the first president

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	5 president	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 president	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 president	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 president	amod
5	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	the first president					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was the first Black president, in a country that once had slavery

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	6 president	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 president	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 president	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 president	amod
5	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 president	amod
6	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 president	appos
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	obj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 country	acl:relcl
14	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	the first Black president					tree rules
2	have	past		a country				once property	tree rules

Option 3

He was from Britain

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	4 Britain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Britain	cop
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Britain	case
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			Britain			tree rules

Option 4

He was the youngest person ever

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	5 person	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 person	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	the youngest person			ever		tree rules

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