Test 4 · Canada: a short story

What would a country stretching thousands of kilometres need to hold it together in 1885?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country, thousands · What happens: stretch, need, hold · To what, where: country, 1885

This is test 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 stretching	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stretching	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 country	det
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretching	nsubj
5	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 need	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 kilometres	case
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thousands	nmod
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stretching	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hold	mark
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 need	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	obj
13	together	together	ADV	_	11 hold	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 1885	case
15	1885	1885	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 hold	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stretching	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	would	a country				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	need	present	thousands of kilometres				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	thousands of kilometres not said here	country	1885	together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in 1885=Location

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

A bigger castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 castle	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 castle	amod
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A railway linking east and west

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 railway	det
2	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	linking	link	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 railway	acl
4	east	east	ADV	_	3 linking	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 west	cc
6	west	west	ADV	_	4 east	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	link	gerund	a railway not said here					east property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

More beavers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 beavers	amod
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A wall around it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wall	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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