Test 7 · The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

in a cartoon Makhno beats everyone with his cart-gun and lives happy ever after. fix?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: beat, live, fix · To what, where: everyone, cartoon Makhno

This is test 7 of lesson 46 «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» 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	in	in	ADP	_	4 Makhno	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Makhno	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Makhno	compound
4	Makhno	Makhno	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beats	obl
5	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 beats	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 gun	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 gun	nmod:poss
9	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gun	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 cart	punct
11	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beats	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lives	cc
13	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beats	conj
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lives	xcomp
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 after	advmod
16	after	after	ADV	_	13 lives	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beats	punct
18	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beats	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 beats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beat	present	everyone	a cartoon Makhno	with his cart gun	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient with gun=Instrument
2	live	present			after, happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fix	infinitive				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

He became president of France

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 France	case
5	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 president	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	He	president of France					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He fought several sides but lost to the Bolsheviks and died abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sides	amod
4	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fought	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 lost	cc
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fought	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Bolsheviks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bolsheviks	det
9	Bolsheviks	Bolshevik	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 lost	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 died	cc
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fought	conj
12	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	11 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fight	past	He	several sides		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Co-Agent
2	lose	participle	He not said here		to the Bolsheviks	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	past	He not said here		abroad property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

That's exactly what happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 what	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That					exactly property	tree rules
2	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He never had any carts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 carts	det
5	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	He	any carts					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Patient

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