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Test 5 · Canada: a short story

A child sent to a residential school was not allowed to speak her own language. Why is that so painful?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, that · What happens: send, not allow, speak, be · To what, where: child, residential school, own language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: A child sent to a residential school was not allowed to speak her own language.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 child	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 school	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 school	det
6	residential	residential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 school	amod
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 allowed	advmod
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 speak	mark
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 allowed	xcomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 language	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 language	amod
15	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speak	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 allowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		a child not said here		a residential school			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to school=Destination
2	not allow	past · passive		a child					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	a child not said here	child's own language					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.

Sentence 2: Why is that so painful?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 painful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 painful	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 painful	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 painful	advmod
5	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 painful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					painful property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It only lasted one day

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	3 lasted	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 lasted	advmod
3	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	It				day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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

It cut children off from their families and culture

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	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 families	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 families	nmod:poss
7	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 culture	cc
9	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 families	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	It	children		children's families and culture			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent child=Theme from family=Initial_Location

Option 3

It made school easier, because every lesson was in one language

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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 language	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 language	mark
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 lesson	det
8	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 language	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 language	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 language	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 language	nummod
12	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	school				easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material school=Product
2	is	past	every lesson			one language			tree rules

Option 4

It was what families wanted

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	3 what	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It						tree rules
2	want	past	families						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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