Test 9 · ★★ · The United States: a short story

Why did the USA become one of the most powerful countries after the World Wars?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: USA · What happens: become

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 become	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 USA	det
4	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 become	nsubj
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 become	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 countries	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 countries	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 powerful	advmod
10	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 countries	amod
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 Wars	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Wars	det
14	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Wars	compound
15	Wars	War	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 countries	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · do-support	the USA						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

It was the oldest country in the world

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	5 country	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 country	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
4	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 country	amod
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 country	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the oldest country		the world			tree rules

Option 2

It ruled all of Europe

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 ruled	nsubj
2	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ruled	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Europe	case
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	It	all					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It helped win both wars and grew huge in industry and technology

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 helped	nsubj
2	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helped	xcomp
4	both	both	CCONJ	_	5 wars	cc:preconj
5	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 win	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 helped	conj
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grew	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 industry	case
10	industry	industry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 technology	cc
12	technology	technology	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 industry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	past	It				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	win	infinitive		wars			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality
3	grow	past			industry and technology	huge property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in industry=Location

Option 4

It lost both wars, but Britain and France gave it their colonies

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 wars	det
4	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lost	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 France	cc
9	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Britain	conj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	obj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 colonies	nmod:poss
13	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	It	both wars					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality
2	give	past	Britain and France	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient colony=Theme

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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