Test 1 · ★★ · Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported

Finn in Dublin says: «Grandad says it all kicked off in 1948, me cousin says 7 October, yer man on the telly says 1967 — so who's the eejit?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finn, Grandad, it, me cousin, man, best answer · What happens: say, kick off, be · To what, where: 1948, 7, 1967, eejit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» 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: Finn in Dublin says: «Grandad says it all kicked off in 1948, me cousin says 7 October, yer man on the telly says 1967 — so who's the eejit?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Dublin	case
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Finn	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kicked	nsubj
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 kicked	advmod
11	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 kicked	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1948	case
14	1948	1948	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 kicked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 cousin	compound
17	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
19	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 says	obj
20	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 7	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 says	punct
22	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 man	nmod:poss
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 says	nsubj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 telly	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 telly	det
26	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	nmod
27	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 says	conj
28	1967	1967	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 says	obj
29	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 eejit	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	34 eejit	advmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 eejit	nsubj
32	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 eejit	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 eejit	det
34	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	parataxis
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 eejit	punct
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 eejit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Finn in Dublin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Grandad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kick off in a quote	past	it		1948	all property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	me cousin	7			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 7=Topic
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	yer's man on the telly	1967			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 1967=Topic
6	is a in a quote	present		the eejit			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: What is the best 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	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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 best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The cousin, because nothing at all happened between those peoples before 2023, so the older dates don't count

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cousin	det
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 happened	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 happened	mark
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 happened	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cousin	conj
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 peoples	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 peoples	det
11	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 happened	obl
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 2023	case
13	2023	2023	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 happened	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 count	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	21 count	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dates	det
17	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 dates	amod
18	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 count	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 count	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 count	advmod
21	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cousin	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	nothing				before 2023	between that peoples	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between people=Location
2	not count	present · do-support	the older dates						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

None of them; each picks a real turning point, and where you start changes the story

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 picks	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 picks	punct
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 picks	nsubj
6	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 point	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 point	amod
9	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 point	compound
10	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 changes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 changes	cc
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 start	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 start	nsubj
15	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 changes	csubj
16	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 picks	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 story	det
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pick	present	None	a real turning point	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient
2	start	present	you		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	change	present	None not said here	the story	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient

Option 3

The man on TV, because TV is always wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrong	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 TV	case
4	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 TV	case
7	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 wrong	advmod
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the man on TV because TV					always, wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

Grandad, because 1948 never happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 1948	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 1948	case
4	1948	1948	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Grandad	appos
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 happened	advmod
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	past	Grandad						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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