Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★
★★★ Mason in Boston: «Wicked simple: one dude got shot in Sarajevo, so the whole world went to war.» Best reply?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: whole world · What happens: shoot, go · To what, where: one dude, Sarajevo, war
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 86 «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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: ★★★ Mason in Boston: «Wicked simple: one dude got shot in Sarajevo, so the whole world went to war.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Boston | case |
| 6 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mason | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 simple | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 simple | punct |
| 9 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 simple | amod |
| 10 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ★ | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 shot | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 dude | nummod |
| 13 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shot | aux:pass |
| 15 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 simple | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Sarajevo | case |
| 17 | Sarajevo | Sarajevo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 world | amod |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shot | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 war | case |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot in a quote | past · passive | one dude | Sarajevo | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in sarajevo=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | the whole world | war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location |
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: Best reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 reply | amod |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
No, the war began when Britain invaded Sarajevo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 began | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 war | det |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 invaded | advmod |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 invaded | nsubj |
| 8 | invaded | invade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | advcl |
| 9 | Sarajevo | Sarajevo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 invaded | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the war | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | invade | past | Britain | Sarajevo | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The shot was a spark; rival alliances pulled countries in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shot | det |
| 2 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spark | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spark | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spark | det |
| 5 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 alliances | punct |
| 7 | rival | rival | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 alliances | amod |
| 8 | alliances | alliance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spark | nmod |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 countries | amod |
| 10 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 alliances | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 alliances | case |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the shot | a spark | rival alliances and pulled countries | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pull | participle | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
No, that shot came four years after the war ended
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 shot | det |
| 4 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 ended | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 war | det |
| 10 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ended | nsubj |
| 11 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | that shot | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | end | past | the war | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
Yeah, one shot and nothing else, that's the whole story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 shot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 shot | nummod |
| 4 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nothing | cc |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 shot | conj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 nothing | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 story | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 story | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 story | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the whole story | tree rules |
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