Test 6 · Learning through the ages: schools, universities, librarie…
Hamid says it's well unfair that girls were kept out of school. What is true today?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hamid, it · What happens: say, be, keep out · To what, where: girls, school · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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: Hamid says it's well unfair that girls were kept out of school.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamid | Hamid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 unfair | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unfair | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 unfair | advmod |
| 6 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 kept | mark |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 kept | aux:pass |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 unfair | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 school | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 school | case |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Hamid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | unfair, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep out | past · passive | girls | school | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme school=Attribute |
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 is true today?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | today | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It was fought for, and gaps still remain in some places
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 | 3 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | aux:pass |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 fought | case |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remain | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remain | cc |
| 7 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 remain | nsubj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 remain | advmod |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 places | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 places | det |
| 12 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 remain | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · passive | It | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | remain | present | gaps | some places | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
Option 2
Girls were never kept out of school anywhere at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 kept | advmod |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| 8 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 kept | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep out | past · passive | Girls | school | at all; anywhere property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme school=Attribute |
Option 3
Only boys are allowed to go to school today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 boys | advmod |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present · passive | boys | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | boys not said here | school | today | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Every girl everywhere now goes to school, no gaps left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 girl | advmod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 goes | advmod |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gaps | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 gaps | det |
| 10 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 goes | parataxis |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gaps | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | every girl | school | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | no gaps not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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