Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★
★★★ Priya in Mumbai: «Sputnik went up, so America just chilled, lah.» What did the USA really do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, Sputnik, America, USA · What happens: ★, go up, chill, do · To what, where: Priya, Mumbai, lah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Priya in Mumbai: «Sputnik went up, so America just chilled, lah.»
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 | Priya | Priya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Mumbai | case |
| 6 | Mumbai | Mumbai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | Sputnik | sputnik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chilled | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 chilled | advmod |
| 14 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 chilled | nsubj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 chilled | advmod |
| 16 | chilled | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lah | punct |
| 18 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chilled | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | Priya | Mumbai | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go up in a quote | past | Sputnik | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | chill in a quote | past | America | lah | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lah=Experiencer |
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 did the USA really do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 USA | det |
| 4 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | the USA | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Gave up on space travel for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Gave | compound:prt |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 travel | case |
| 4 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travel | compound |
| 5 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gave | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 travel | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | space travel for good | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Bought Sputnik from the Soviets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | Sputnik | Sputnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bought | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Soviets | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Soviets | det |
| 5 | Soviets | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Bought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | Sputnik | the Soviets | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sputnik=Theme from soviet=Source |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Set up NASA and raced to the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 raced | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Set | compound:prt |
| 3 | NASA | NASA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Set | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 raced | cc |
| 5 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Moon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 raced | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle | NASA | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient nasa=Result | |||||
| 2 | race | past | to the Moon result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to moon=Result |
Option 4
Built a copy of Sputnik and stopped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 copy | det |
| 3 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Built | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sputnik | case |
| 5 | Sputnik | Sputnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 copy | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stopped | cc |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Built | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | a copy of Sputnik | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset copy=Product | |||||
| 2 | stop | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | copy | Sputnik | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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