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Test 9 · ★★★ · Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rig…

Alfie asks why some buildings have no ramps. What would a campaigner say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alfie, buildings, campaigner · What happens: ask, have, say · To what, where: ramps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Alfie asks why some buildings have no ramps.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 buildings	det
5	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 ramps	det
8	ramps	ramp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Alfie						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	some buildings	no ramps					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ramp=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.

Sentence 2: What would a campaigner say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 campaigner	det
4	campaigner	campaigner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a campaigner						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Wheelchairs were only invented last year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wheelchairs	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 invented	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 invented	advmod
4	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invented	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Wheelchairs			year		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Access was won by campaigning, and some old places still lack it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Access	access	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	aux:pass
3	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 campaigning	case
5	campaigning	campaigning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lack	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lack	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 places	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lack	nsubj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 lack	advmod
12	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 won	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past · passive	campaigning	Access					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
2	lack	present	some old places	Access			still		tree rules

Option 3

Ramps are not allowed by law in most old buildings in Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ramps	ramp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 buildings	case
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 buildings	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 buildings	amod
10	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Britain	case
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 buildings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive	law	Ramps		most old buildings in Britain			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary

Option 4

Nobody needs ramps, so builders leave them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ramps	ramp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needs	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod
6	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 needs	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 leave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nobody	ramps					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ramp=Theme
2	leave out	present	builders	ramps = ramp					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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