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Test 11 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes

Oliver asks if Fairtrade fixes everything. What is fair to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oliver, Fairtrade · What happens: ask, fix, be, say · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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: Oliver asks if Fairtrade fixes everything.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 fixes	mark
4	Fairtrade	Fairtrade	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fixes	nsubj
5	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	ccomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 fixes	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Oliver						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fix a condition, not said to happen	present	Fairtrade	everything					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent everything=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 is fair to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fair	csubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It solves all the problems of poor farmers for good

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	2 solves	nsubj
2	solves	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 problems	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 problems	det
5	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 solves	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 farmers	case
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farmers	amod
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 problems	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 good	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 solves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	solve	present	It	all problems of poor farmers				for good	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It helps some farmers, and how much is debated

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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 farmers	det
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helps	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 debated	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 debated	cc
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 debated	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 debated	aux:pass
10	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 helps	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It		some farmers				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary
2	debate	present · passive		much					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent

Option 3

It makes all chocolate free for everyone

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 chocolate	det
4	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	all chocolate				free property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material chocolate=Product

Option 4

It is a kind of football sticker

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	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sticker	case
6	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sticker	compound
7	sticker	sticker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of football sticker	tree rules

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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