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Test 8 · ★★★ · Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rig…

Thabo asks how Mandela went from prison to president. What is the truest summary?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thabo, Mandela, truest summary · What happens: ask, go, be · To what, where: prison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Thabo asks how Mandela went from prison to president.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thabo	Thabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 went	advmod
4	Mandela	Mandela	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	ccomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 prison	case
7	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 president	case
9	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Thabo						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	Mandela			prison		to president	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from prison=Initial_Location to president=Destination

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 the truest summary?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 summary	det
4	truest	true	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 summary	amod
5	summary	summary	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truest summary						tree rules

The options

Option 1

It all happened in one week in 1994

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 happened	nsubj
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 week	nummod
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1994	case
8	1994	1994	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It			1994	week	all property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1994=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Decades of struggle ended apartheid, then all races voted in 1994

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ended	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 struggle	case
3	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Decades	nmod
4	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	apartheid	apartheid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ended	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 voted	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 voted	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 races	det
9	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 voted	nsubj
10	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ended	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1994	case
12	1994	1994	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 voted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	Decades of struggle	apartheid					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality apartheid=Eventuality
2	vote	past	all races			1994	then		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He escaped from prison and took over the government by force

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 escaped	nsubj
2	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 prison	case
4	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 escaped	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 escaped	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 government	det
9	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 force	case
11	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	He			prison			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from prison=Initial_Location
2	take over	past	He not said here	the government				by force	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He was president first, then he went to prison for 27 years

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 president	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 president	cop
3	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	dislocated
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 president	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 prison	case
10	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	president				first property	tree rules
2	go	past	he			prison	then; year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location

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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