Test 6 · Chornobyl and independence in 1991

«Nobody can ever go near Chornobyl again, it's dead forever». fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nobody, it · What happens: go, be, fix · To what, where: Chornobyl, it

This is test 6 of lesson 48 «Chornobyl and independence in 1991» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 go	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	7 Chornobyl	case
7	Chornobyl	Chornobyl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dead	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	parataxis
13	forever	forever	ADV	_	12 dead	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
16	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fix	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	can	Nobody		Chornobyl	ever; again		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near chornobyl=Location
2	is in a quote	present	it				dead, forever property	tree rules
3	fix	infinitive	Nobody not said here	it				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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

It's a holiday beach now

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 beach	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beach	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beach	det
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beach	compound
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 beach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a holiday beach			now		tree rules

Option 2

People live there normally in big cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 live	advmod
4	normally	normally	ADV	_	2 live	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cities	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cities	amod
7	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	People			big cities; there		normally property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location

Option 3

Correct, no living thing is there, not even grass, insects or birds

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 there	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 thing	det
4	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grass	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 grass	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 grass	advmod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 insects	punct
13	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grass	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 birds	cc
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 insects	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no living thing					there property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Guided visits were possible before the war, and wildlife came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 visits	amod
2	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possible	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 war	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possible	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	parataxis
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	guide	participle				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Guided visits	before the war	possible property	tree rules
3	come back	past	wildlife			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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