Test 10 · Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives
A news clip shows smiling Ukrainians painting a new playground in a damaged town. What does it show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: news clip, Ukrainians, clip · What happens: show, smile, paint, damage · To what, where: Ukrainians, new playground, damaged town
This is test 10 of lesson 25 «Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives» of the politics 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 news clip shows smiling Ukrainians painting a new playground in a damaged town.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clip | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clip | compound |
| 3 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 shows | xcomp |
| 6 | Ukrainians | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 smiling | obj |
| 7 | painting | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Ukrainians | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 playground | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 playground | amod |
| 10 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painting | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 13 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 town | amod |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 painting | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a news clip | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | a news clip not said here | Ukrainians | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ukrainian=Topic | ||||
| 3 | paint | gerund | Ukrainians not said here | a new playground | a damaged town | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent playground=Theme in town=Destination | |||
| 4 | damage | participle | vn destroy-44 «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 does it show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 show | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | clip | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Painting playgrounds stops missiles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Painting | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stops | csubj |
| 2 | playgrounds | playground | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Painting | obj |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | missiles | missile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stops | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | gerund | playgrounds | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent playground=Destination | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | Painting | missiles | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality missile=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Even in war, people rebuild and keep going
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 war | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 war | case |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rebuild | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 war | punct |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rebuild | nsubj |
| 6 | rebuild | rebuild | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 keep | cc |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rebuild | conj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebuild | present | people | war | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | people not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The war ended years ago everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 war | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 ended | advmod |
| 6 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 ended | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | the war | ago, everywhere property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
Only children rebuild towns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 children | advmod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rebuild | nsubj |
| 3 | rebuild | rebuild | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rebuild | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebuild | present | children | towns | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Result |
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