Test 11 · ★★ · Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries
A grain-selling country stops selling because of a war, as was reported. Which country is hit hardest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: selling country · What happens: sell, stop, report, hit · To what, where: country
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 37 «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money 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: A grain-selling country stops selling because of a war, as was reported.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 2 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 selling | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grain | punct |
| 4 | selling | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stops | nsubj |
| 6 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stops | xcomp |
| 8 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 war | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 because | fixed |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 war | det |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 selling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reported | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 reported | mark |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reported | aux:pass |
| 15 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stops | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | gerund | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stop | present | a selling country | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sell | gerund | a selling country not said here | because a war | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | report | past · passive | a selling country not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» |
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: Which country is hit hardest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hit | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hit | aux:pass |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | hardest | hard | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 hit | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | present · passive | which country | hard property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
One that grows all its own grain on its own farms at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 grain | det:predet |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grain | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grain | amod |
| 7 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 farms | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 farms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 farms | amod |
| 11 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grows | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 farms | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | One | its own grain | grain's own farms at home | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grain=Theme |
Option 2
One that only sells cars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sells | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 sells | advmod |
| 4 | sells | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 One | acl:relcl |
| 5 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sells | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | cars | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
One that depends on buying grain from abroad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 depends | nsubj |
| 3 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 One | acl:relcl |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 buying | mark |
| 5 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 depends | advcl |
| 6 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buying | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 abroad | case |
| 8 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 5 buying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | grain | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent grain=Theme from abroad=Source |
Option 4
One that doesn't eat bread at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present · do-support | One | bread | all | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries/t11/