Test 6 · Canada: a short story

eh, why'd canada say sorry for the schools? isn't that old history

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: canada · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: old history · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 eh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 history	parataxis
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 schools	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 schools	det
10	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sorry	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 history	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 history	advmod
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 history	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 history	amod
16	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	would	canada					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present		that old history					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 a joke

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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Canada did not say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: apologize	past · do-support	Canada					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because the schools were too far away from the cities and cost a lot of money to run

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 away	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 schools	det
3	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 away	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 away	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 cities	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cities	det
10	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 away	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cost	cc
12	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 away	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cost	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 money	case
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lot	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 run	mark
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cost	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the schools		the cities	away, far property	tree rules
2	cost	present	the schools not said here	a lot of money			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value
3	run	to-infinitive	the schools not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The harm affected many families still alive, and apologising helps healing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 harm	det
2	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affected	nsubj
3	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 families	amod
5	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 affected	obj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 alive	advmod
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 families	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helps	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 helps	cc
10	apologising	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 helps	nsubj
11	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 affected	conj
12	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	affect	past	the harm	many families	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus family=Experiencer
2	apologise speech: apologize	gerund			tree rules
3	help	present		healing	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent healing=Beneficiary

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