Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★
★★★ Kiara in Melbourne: «Plague killed heaps of people, so workers got paid heaps less after, yeah nah?» What really happened?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Plague, workers · What happens: ★, kill, get, pay, happen · To what, where: Kiara, Melbourne, heaps, paid heaps · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Kiara in Melbourne: «Plague killed heaps of people, so workers got paid heaps less after, yeah nah?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kiara | Kiara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Melbourne | case |
| 6 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
| 9 | Plague | Plague | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | nsubj |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | parataxis |
| 11 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 killed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heaps | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 16 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | conj |
| 18 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 heaps | amod |
| 19 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 got | obj |
| 20 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 after | advmod |
| 21 | after | after | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nah | punct |
| 23 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 24 nah | discourse |
| 24 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 17 got | discourse |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | Kiara | Melbourne | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill in a quote | past | Plague | heaps of people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | workers | paid heaps | after property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heap=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | pay in a quote | participle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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 really happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Right, wages fell, as nobody needed workers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 wages | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wages | punct |
| 3 | wages | wage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | advcl |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 needed | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 needed | mark |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 needed | nsubj |
| 8 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 9 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 needed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wage | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fall | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | need | past | nobody | workers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot worker=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Workers were paid in bread, not in money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | aux:pass |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bread | case |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 money | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 money | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bread | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | Workers | bread and money | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
Option 3
Wages stayed exactly the same for 500 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stayed | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 7 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Wages | year | same property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Fewer workers, so survivors could ask more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 workers | amod |
| 2 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ask | advmod |
| 5 | survivors | survivor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 workers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ask | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | could | survivors | more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient |
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