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Test 2 · Canada: a short story

The USA broke away from Britain with a war. How was Canada's road different?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: USA, road · What happens: break away, be

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: The USA broke away from Britain with a war.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 USA	det
2	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 broke	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Britain	case
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 war	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 war	det
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break away	past	the USA					with a war; from Britain; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from britain=Co-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.

Sentence 2: How was Canada's road different?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 road	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Canada	case
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 road	amod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Canada's road					how property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Canada became independent step by step and peacefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 step	amod
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 step	case
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 step	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 peacefully	cc
8	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	2 became	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Canada	independent step by step					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	step		step						nom step «act transitive»: by=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Canada fought a longer war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 war	det
4	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 war	amod
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Canada	a longer war					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Co-Agent

Option 3

Canada was conquered by the USA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 conquered	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 conquered	aux:pass
3	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 USA	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 USA	det
6	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 conquered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conquer	past · passive	the USA	Canada					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

Canada never became independent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 became	advmod
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not become	past	Canada					independent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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