Test 10 · Canada: a short story

Why did the Chinese railway workers deserve to be remembered?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Chinese railway workers · What happens: deserve, remember

This is test 10 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 deserve	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 deserve	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 workers	det
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 workers	amod
5	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 workers	compound
6	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deserve	nsubj
7	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 remembered	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 remembered	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 remembered	aux:pass
10	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 remembered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	past · do-support	the Chinese railway workers						tree rules
2	remember	to-infinitive · passive							vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»

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

They fought at Vimy Ridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 Ridge	case
4	Vimy	Vimy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ridge	compound
5	Ridge	Ridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	They			Vimy Ridge			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They did the most dangerous work building the railway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 work	amod
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 work	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 railway	det
9	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 building	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	They	the dangerous work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	build	gerund	the dangerous work not said here	the railway					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset railway=Product

Option 3

They designed the maple leaf flag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 designed	nsubj
2	designed	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flag	det
4	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaf	compound
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flag	compound
6	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 designed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	design	past	They	the leaf flag					vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Result

Option 4

They owned the railway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 owned	nsubj
2	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 railway	det
4	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	They	the railway					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot railway=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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