Test 11 · ★ · Why some places grew rich

Which is the wisest summary of why places grow rich?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: places · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: wisest summary

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 72 «Why some places grew rich» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 summary	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 summary	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 summary	det
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 summary	amod
5	summary	summary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 grow	mark
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grow	advmod
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 summary	advcl
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grow	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 summary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the wisest summary					tree rules
2	grow	present	places					rich property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only the cleverness of one king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 cleverness	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cleverness	det
3	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 king	nummod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleverness	nmod

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

Option 2

Only gold and silver, because the countries with the most mines always end up the richest

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 gold	advmod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 end	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 silver	cc
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gold	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 end	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 end	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 countries	det
8	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 end	nsubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 mines	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mines	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 mines	advmod
12	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 countries	nmod
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 end	advmod
14	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 end	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 richest	det
17	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present	gold and silver	the richest				always property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many causes together: geography, trade, skills, laws, and sometimes taking from others

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 causes	amod
2	causes	cause	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 causes	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 geography	punct
5	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trade	punct
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 geography	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 skills	punct
9	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 geography	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laws	punct
11	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 geography	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 taking	cc
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 taking	advmod
15	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 causes	acl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 others	case
17	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	Many causes and geography and trade and skills and laws not said here			others		sometimes property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from other=Initial_Location

Option 4

Only the weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 weather	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weather	det
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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