Test 10 · ★★ · Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported

Ruby stops eating after the soup clip. Which statement fits the reports?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby, statement · What happens: stop, eat, fit · To what, where: reports

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: Ruby stops eating after the soup clip.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 clip	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clip	det
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clip	compound
7	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Ruby						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	Ruby not said here				after the soup clip		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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: Which statement fits the reports?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fits	nsubj
3	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reports	det
5	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fits	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	which statement	the reports					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most agree children went hungry; people dispute why — limits on aid, or Hamas and the fighting

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 agree	nsubj
2	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 agree	ccomp
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 dispute	punct
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dispute	nsubj
8	dispute	dispute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 agree	parataxis
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dispute	advmod
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 limits	punct
11	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dispute	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 aid	case
13	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 limits	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Hamas	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 Hamas	cc
16	Hamas	Hamas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 agree	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fighting	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fighting	det
19	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Hamas	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Most			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	children		hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dispute	present	people	limits on aid		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The hunger was caused by the soup itself, because the soup in the clip had gone bad and made people ill

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunger	det
2	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caused	aux:pass
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 soup	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soup	det
7	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	obl
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 soup	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 gone	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soup	det
12	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 clip	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 clip	det
15	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soup	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 caused	conj
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gone	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caused	conj
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	obj
22	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	past · passive		the hunger	by the soup hunger	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	go	past · perfect	the soup in the clip		bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past		people	ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Option 3

Gaza had more food than Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Gaza	more food				than Australia	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4

Nobody in Gaza was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 hungry	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Gaza	case
3	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nobody					hungry property	tree rules

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