Test 8 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…

Mila's neighbour: "Them vaccines were rushed, done in a weekend." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Them · What happens: vaccine, rush, do, be · To what, where: vaccines

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» 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: Mila's neighbour: "Them vaccines were rushed, done in a weekend."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mila	Mila	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 neighbour	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mila	case
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 rushed	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 vaccines	punct
6	Them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 vaccines	nsubj
7	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rushed	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rushed	aux:pass
9	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 neighbour	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 rushed	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 weekend	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 weekend	det
14	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 neighbour	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 neighbour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	vaccine in a quote		Them = they			tree rules
2	rush in a quote	past · passive		vaccines		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
3	do in a quote	participle			weekend	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

They were invented back in 1900 and just kept on a shelf until 2020

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invented	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 invented	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1900	case
6	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 invented	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 kept	advmod
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 invented	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 shelf	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shelf	det
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
13	until	until	ADP	_	14 2020	case
14	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent back	past · passive		They		1900			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	keep	participle				a shelf	until 2020		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location

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

They were made within a year using many years of earlier research

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	advcl
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 years	amod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 using	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 research	case
11	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 research	amod
12	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		They			year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	use	gerund					year		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They were made in a weekend with no research at all, just guessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 weekend	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 weekend	det
6	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 research	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 research	det
9	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 research	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guessing	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 guessing	advmod
14	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		They			weekend	with no research at all	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	guess	gerund							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No vaccine was ever really made; people all just got better on their own

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 vaccine	det
2	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 made	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 got	nsubj
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 got	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 own	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 own	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		no vaccine			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	get	past	people			people's own		all, good property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on own=Source

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