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Test 12 · ★★★ · Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rig…

In EU4 you click a button to «abolish serfdom». In real life, what did it take?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: click, abolish, take · To what, where: button, serfdom, life, real life

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 69 «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» 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: In EU4 you click a button to «abolish serfdom».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 EU4	case
2	EU4	EU4	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 click	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 click	nsubj
4	click	click	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 button	det
6	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 click	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 abolish	mark
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 abolish	punct
9	abolish	abolish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 click	advcl
10	serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 abolish	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 click	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 click	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	click	present	you	a button				in EU4	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent button=Patient in eu4=Topic
2	abolish in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	serfdom					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serfdom=Theme

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: In real life, what did it take?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 life	case
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 life	amod
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 take	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	expl
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support		life		real life			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Value in life=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, serfs just freed themselves overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 freed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 serfs	punct
3	serfs	serf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 freed	advmod
5	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 freed	obj
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 freed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	past	Nothing	serfs = serf				overnight property	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer themselves=Source

Option 2

A football match between the serfs and the lords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 match	det
2	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 match	compound
3	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	between	between	ADP	_	6 serfs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 serfs	det
6	serfs	serf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 match	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lords	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lords	det
9	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 serfs	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Decades of pressure, reform and struggle by many people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reform	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 pressure	case
3	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Decades	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reform	punct
5	reform	reform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 struggle	cc
7	struggle	struggle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 reform	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 struggle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reform	infinitive	Decades of pressure						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	struggle	infinitive	Decades of pressure not said here					by many people	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

One click by one king, and it was done that same afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 click	nummod
2	click	click	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 king	nummod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 click	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 done	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 click	acl
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 afternoon	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 afternoon	amod
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive	One click by one king not said here	click			afternoon		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	click		one king						nom click «event transitive»: by=agent

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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