Test 8 · Canada: a short story
A Toronto classroom has kids whose families come from 20 countries. What does that show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toronto classroom, families, that · What happens: have, come, show · To what, where: kids, 20 countries
This is test 8 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 Toronto classroom has kids whose families come from 20 countries.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 classroom | det |
| 2 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 classroom | compound |
| 3 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 families | nmod:poss |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kids | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 countries | case |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 countries | nummod |
| 11 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a Toronto classroom | kids | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | present | families | 20 countries | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_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.
Sentence 2: What does that show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Toronto is a school for travellers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 school | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 school | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 school | det |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 travellers | case |
| 6 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 school | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Toronto | a school | for travellers | tree rules |
Option 2
Kids move every year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 move | nsubj |
| 2 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 move | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | Kids | year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Only one culture lives in Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 culture | nummod |
| 3 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Canada | case |
| 6 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | one culture | Canada | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canada=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Canada is a mosaic of many cultures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mosaic | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mosaic | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mosaic | det |
| 4 | mosaic | mosaic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cultures | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cultures | amod |
| 7 | cultures | culture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mosaic | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Canada | a mosaic | of many cultures | tree rules |
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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