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Test 8 · ★★ · When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, s…

Ploy from Thailand: "Siam never got colonised, nah, we was too clever." What should she add?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ploy, we, Siam · What happens: not colonis, be, add · To what, where: Siam

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Ploy from Thailand: "Siam never got colonised, nah, we was too clever."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ploy	ploy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Thailand	case
3	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ploy	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 colonised	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 colonised	punct
6	Siam	Siam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 colonised	nsubj:pass
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 colonised	advmod
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 colonised	aux:pass
9	colonised	colonis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ploy	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clever	punct
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	16 clever	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 clever	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 clever	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 clever	advmod
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colonised	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 clever	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not colonis in a quote	past · passive	Ploy from Thailand not said here	Siam					tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	we					clever property	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: What should she add?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 add	obl
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 add	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 add	nsubj
4	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	should	Siam						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Siam had no neighbours at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Siam	Siam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 neighbours	det
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Siam	no neighbours		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Patient

Option 2

Siam was so clever it went on to conquer both Britain and France

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Siam	Siam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clever	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	ccomp
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 conquer	mark
9	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
10	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 Britain	cc:preconj
11	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clever	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 France	cc
13	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Britain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Siam					Britain and France obl; clever property	tree rules
2	go on	past	it						vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	conquer	to-infinitive							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Siam also gave up some lands to keep the rest free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Siam	Siam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 gave	compound:prt
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 lands	det
6	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	Siam	some lands					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Source
2	keep	to-infinitive	Siam not said here	the rest				free property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme

Option 4

Siam was a colony of China all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Siam	Siam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 colony	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 colony	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 colony	det
4	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 China	case
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 colony	nmod
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	4 colony	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Siam	a colony				of China; along property	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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