Test 10 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

Ethan in Calgary groans: «more wars than almost any time since World War Two? I'm dead, I'm out.» What is a helpful reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan, I · What happens: groan, be · To what, where: more wars, helpful reply

This is test 10 of lesson 28 «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» 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: Ethan in Calgary groans: «more wars than almost any time since World War Two?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 groans	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Calgary	case
3	Calgary	Calgary	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ethan	nmod
4	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 wars	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 wars	punct
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 wars	amod
8	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 groans	obl
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 time	advmod
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 groans	obl
13	since	since	ADP	_	15 War	case
14	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 War	compound
15	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 time	nmod
16	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 War	nummod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 groans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	groan	present	Ethan in Calgary	more wars			time		vn animal_sounds-38 «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: I'm dead, I'm out.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dead	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 out	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 out	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 out	cop
7	out	out	ADV	_	3 dead	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					dead property	tree rules
2	is	present	I					out property	tree rules

Sentence 3: What is a helpful reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only adults are allowed to care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 care	mark
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		adults					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	care not said to happen	to-infinitive	adults not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's normal to feel overwhelmed; you can still learn, be kind and help a charity

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 normal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feel	mark
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 normal	csubj
6	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 feel	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 learn	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 learn	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 learn	aux
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 learn	advmod
11	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 normal	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 kind	cop
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 learn	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 help	cc
16	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 learn	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 charity	det
18	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			normal property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	overwhelm	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	learn	can	you		still		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	infinitive				kind property	tree rules
6	help	infinitive	you not said here	a charity			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charity=Beneficiary

Option 3

It's fake, because wars are disappearing all over the world and there are fewer now than ever before

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fake	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fake	cop
3	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 disappearing	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 disappearing	mark
6	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 disappearing	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 disappearing	aux
8	disappearing	disappear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fake	parataxis
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 world	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disappearing	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 are	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 are	expl
15	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fake	conj
16	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 are	nsubj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 are	advmod
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 before	mark
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 before	advmod
20	before	before	ADV	_	17 now	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			fake property	tree rules
2	disappear	present · progressive	wars	the world			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	present	fewer	there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Hide from every news story forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 story	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 story	det
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	compound
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	nmod
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Hide	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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.

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