Test 11 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

Why do both Australia and New Zealand count Gallipoli as part of becoming nations?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Australia · What happens: count, become · To what, where: Gallipoli

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: 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	8 count	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Australia	aux
3	both	both	CCONJ	_	4 Australia	cc:preconj
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 count	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Zealand	cc
6	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Zealand	flat
7	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Australia	conj
8	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Gallipoli	Gallipoli	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 count	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 part	case
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 count	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 nations	case
13	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 nations	amod
14	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 part	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	Australia and New Zealand	Gallipoli				as part of becoming nations	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gallipoli=Theme as part=Attribute
2	become	gerund							vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

They were founded at Gallipoli

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 founded	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 founded	aux:pass
3	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Gallipoli	case
5	Gallipoli	Gallipoli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 founded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	found	past · passive		They		Gallipoli			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

They won the whole war there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 war	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 war	amod
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 won	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	They	the whole war		there			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They both became British then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 became	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	They				then	british property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their soldiers fought side by side and the memory helped each feel like its own nation

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 soldiers	nmod:poss
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fought	nsubj
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fought	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 side	case
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fought	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 helped	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 memory	det
9	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helped	nsubj
10	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 helped	obj
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 helped	xcomp
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 nation	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nation	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nation	amod
16	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Their soldiers	side	by side	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Co-Agent
2	help	past	the memory	each		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	feel	infinitive	each not said here		like memory's own nation	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like nation=Theme

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