Test 1 · Canada: a short story

Ollie from Ohio asks why Canadian cereal boxes have French on them

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie, Canadian cereal boxes · What happens: ask, have · To what, where: French · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 39 «Canada: 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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Ohio	case
3	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ollie	nmod
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 have	advmod
6	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boxes	amod
7	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boxes	compound
8	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	ccomp
10	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 have	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Ollie from Ohio						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	Canadian cereal boxes	French				on them = they	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=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

The cereal is made in Paris and shipped all the way across the Atlantic to Canada

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cereal	det
2	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Paris	case
6	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shipped	cc
8	shipped	ship	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 way	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shipped	obj
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 Atlantic	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Atlantic	det
14	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shipped	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Canada	case
16	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the cereal		Paris			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	ship	past		all way	Canada	the Atlantic			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to canada=Destination

Option 2

It is a mistake by the factory

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 mistake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mistake	det
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 factory	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 factory	det
7	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mistake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mistake				by the factory	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

French is the only language in Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 language	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 language	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 language	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 language	amod
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Canada	case
7	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 language	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	French	the only language		Canada			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Canada has two official languages, English and French, from its French history

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 languages	nummod
4	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 languages	amod
5	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 English	punct
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 languages	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 French	cc
9	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 English	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 history	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 history	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 history	nmod:poss
13	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 history	amod
14	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Canada	two official languages					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient

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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