Test 4 · ★★ · When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, s…

Arjun's grandad: "The British gave us railways!" His mate's grandad: "And famines!" Who's right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad · What happens: give, be · To what, where: railways, us

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 76 «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» 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: Arjun's grandad: "The British gave us railways!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arjun	Arjun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Arjun	case
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 British	det
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	Arjun's grandad	railways	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient railway=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.

Sentence 2: His mate's grandad: "And famines!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grandad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mate	case
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 grandad	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 famines	punct
7	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 famines	cc
8	famines	famine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grandad	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 famines	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 famines	punct

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

Sentence 3: Who's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only the railways grandad, since the famines were nothing to do with Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 grandad	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandad	det
3	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grandad	compound
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
6	since	since	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 famines	det
8	famines	famine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nothing	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 nothing	cop
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 grandad	appos
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 Britain	case
14	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the famines				since nothing		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive						with Britain	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both are partly right; historians still argue how to weigh it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 right	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	partly	partly	ADV	_	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 argue	punct
6	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 argue	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 argue	advmod
8	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	parataxis
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 weigh	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 weigh	mark
11	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 argue	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 weigh	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Both			partly, right property	tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	present	historians		still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	weigh	to-infinitive	historians not said here	it			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value

Option 3

Neither; Britain never ruled India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 ruled	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ruled	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 ruled	advmod
5	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rule	past	Britain	India				neither property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent india=Result

Option 4

Only the famines grandad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 grandad	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 famines	det
3	famines	famine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grandad	compound
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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