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Test 7 · ★ · Why some places grew rich

Ethan's gran: "Back in my day Singapore was a sleepy little port." Ethan: "And now it's rich? How?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: port · What happens: be · To what, where: sleepy little port, Ethan

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Ethan's gran: "Back in my day Singapore was a sleepy little port."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gran	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ethan	case
3	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 port	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Back	punct
6	Back	back	ADV	_	15 port	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 day	nmod:poss
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Back	obl
10	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 day	appos
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 port	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 port	det
13	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 port	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 port	amod
15	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gran	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 port	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 port	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		a sleepy little port					tree rules

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: Ethan: "And now it's rich?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 rich	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 rich	punct
4	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 rich	cc
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 rich	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rich	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rich	cop
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ethan	acl:relcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ethan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	port	Ethan not said here			now	rich property	tree rules

Sentence 3: How?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Trade, good schools and clean government helped it grow fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 schools	punct
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 schools	amod
4	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Trade	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 government	cc
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 government	amod
7	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trade	conj
8	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 helped	obj
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 helped	xcomp
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	Trade and good schools and clean government	government					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	grow	infinitive	government not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It became rich by winning a big war against Japan and taking its factories

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 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 winning	mark
5	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 became	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 war	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 war	amod
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 winning	obj
9	against	against	ADP	_	10 Japan	case
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 war	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taking	cc
12	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 winning	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 factories	nmod:poss
14	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It					rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	win	gerund		a big war				against Japan	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality
3	take	gerund		war's factories					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factory=Theme

Option 3

It is still a sleepy little port

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	7 port	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 port	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	7 port	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 port	det
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 port	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 port	amod
7	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a sleepy little port			still		tree rules

Option 4

It found the biggest gold mine on Earth

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mine	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 mine	amod
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mine	compound
6	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mine	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	It	the biggest gold mine		Earth			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Topic

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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