Test 7 · Canada: a short story

Why did fighting at Vimy Ridge matter to Canadians so much?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: fight, matter · To what, where: Vimy Ridge, Canadians

This is test 7 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=Int	3 fighting	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fighting	aux
3	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 matter	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 Ridge	case
5	Vimy	Vimy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ridge	compound
6	Ridge	Ridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fighting	obl
7	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Canadians	case
9	Canadians	Canadian	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 matter	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	7 matter	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · do-support				Vimy Ridge			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	matter	present			Canadians				vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to canadian=Experiencer

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

It was the first battle ever fought by any army anywhere in the world

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	5 battle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 battle	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 battle	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 battle	amod
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 battle	advmod
7	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 battle	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 army	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 army	det
10	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fought	obl
11	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 fought	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the first battle			ever		tree rules
2	fight	participle		the first battle not said here		the world		by any army; anywhere property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It ended the Second World War

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 ended	nsubj
2	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 War	det
4	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 War	amod
5	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 War	compound
6	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ended	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	It	the Second World War					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality

Option 3

Canada lost Québec there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Québec	Québec	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Canada	Québec		there			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent québec=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It gave Canada a stronger sense of being its own nation

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sense	det
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sense	amod
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 nation	case
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 nation	cop
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nation	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nation	amod
11	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	It	a stronger sense	Canada				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent canada=Recipient sense=Theme
2	is	gerund						of sense's own nation	tree rules

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