Test 11 · Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives

A girl in Swansea says: «Yana's sunflower painting is lush. Will she ever go home?» What is the fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, sunflower painting, fair answer · What happens: say, be, go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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 girl in Swansea says: «Yana's sunflower painting is lush.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Swansea	case
4	Swansea	Swansea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 lush	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 lush	punct
8	Yana	Yana	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 painting	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Yana	case
10	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 painting	compound
11	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lush	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lush	cop
13	lush	lush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a girl in Swansea						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Yana's sunflower painting					lush property	tree rules

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: Will she ever go home?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	girl				ever	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: What is the fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

No refugee may ever go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 refugee	det
2	refugee	refugee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	may	no refugee				ever	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some families have gone home and others plan to stay; both choices are normal

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 families	det
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 plan	cc
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plan	nsubj
8	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stay	mark
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 plan	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 normal	punct
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 choices	det
13	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 normal	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 normal	cop
15	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	some families	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plan	present	others		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	others not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	both choices	normal property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

All refugees must go home tomorrow, by order of the government, whether it is safe or not

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 refugees	det
2	refugees	refugee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 order	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 government	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 government	det
12	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 order	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 safe	punct
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 safe	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 safe	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 safe	cop
17	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	parataxis
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 not	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	all refugees		tomorrow	by order of the government; home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by order=Location
2	is	present	government			safe property	tree rules
3	order			the government			nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Only children may go home

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	4 go	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	may	children					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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