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Test 2 · ★★ · The United States: a short story

The Declaration said all men are created equal. Why do historians say the words were greater than the reality?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Declaration, historians, words · What happens: say, create, be · To what, where: men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: The Declaration said all men are created equal.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Declaration	det
2	Declaration	declaration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 men	det
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 created	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 created	aux:pass
7	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
8	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 created	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Declaration						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	create	present · passive		all men				equal property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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: Why do historians say the words were greater than the reality?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 greater	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 greater	cop
8	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 say	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 reality	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reality	det
11	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 greater	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	historians						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the words					than the reality; great property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Slavery continued, and women and Native people did not get equal rights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 people	cc
7	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 women	conj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 get	advmod
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 continued	conj
12	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rights	amod
13	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Slavery						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not get	past · do-support	women and Native people	equal rights					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus

Option 2

Nobody ever read the Declaration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 read	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 read	advmod
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Declaration	det
5	Declaration	declaration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	Nobody	the Declaration			ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent declaration=Topic

Option 3

It was written in French

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 written	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 French	case
5	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		It		French			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in french=Destination

Option 4

Everyone was equal from 1776, and nothing had to change after that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 equal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 equal	cop
3	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 1776	case
5	1776	1776	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 equal	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 equal	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 change	mark
11	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everyone			1776		equal property	tree rules
2	have	past	nothing						tree rules
3	change	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				after that		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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