Test 3 · Canada: a short story

Why is the beaver on Canadian things like the five-cent coin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beaver · What happens: be

This is test 3 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=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beaver	det
4	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 things	case
6	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beaver	nmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	13 coin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coin	det
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 cent	nummod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 five	punct
12	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coin	compound
13	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 things	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the beaver on Canadian things like the cent coin					why property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

It was the king's pet

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	6 pet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pet	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pet	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the king's pet					tree rules

Option 2

It is a joke from 2020

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 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 2020	case
6	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 joke	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke		2020			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The fur trade made the beaver a symbol of Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trade	det
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trade	compound
3	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beaver	det
6	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 symbol	det
8	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Canada	case
10	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 symbol	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the fur trade	a symbol of Canada	the beaver				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset beaver=Beneficiary symbol=Product

Option 4

Beavers built the dam beside the very first Canadian parliament

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dam	det
4	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 parliament	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parliament	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 first	advmod
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 parliament	amod
9	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 parliament	amod
10	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Beavers	the dam		the first Canadian parliament			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product

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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