Test 11 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

Which sentence about Rwanda and M23 is fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: be

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fair	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 Rwanda	case
4	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sentence	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 M23	cc
6	M23	M23	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Rwanda	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fair	cop
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which sentence about Rwanda and M23					fair 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone agrees Rwanda had nothing to do with it, including the UN experts who went and looked

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 agrees	ccomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 experts	punct
11	including	including	ADP	_	14 experts	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 experts	det
13	UN	UN	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 experts	compound
14	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 experts	acl:relcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Everyone			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Rwanda	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	Rwanda not said here	nothing not said here	with it; including the UN experts	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	the UN experts			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	past	Rwanda not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Rwanda said it leads M23 itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leads	nsubj
4	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	M23	m23	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 leads	obj
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 leads	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Rwanda						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lead	present	it	M23					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

UN experts said Rwanda backed M23; Rwanda denied it and said it was protecting its border

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	UN	UN	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 experts	compound
2	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 backed	nsubj
5	backed	back	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	M23	M23	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 backed	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 denied	punct
8	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 denied	nsubj
9	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 denied	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 denied	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 protecting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 protecting	aux
15	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 border	nmod:poss
17	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 protecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	UN experts		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	back	past	Rwanda	M23	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m23=Agent
3	deny	past	Rwanda	it	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	Rwanda not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	protect	past · progressive	it	its border	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Beneficiary

Option 4

M23 is a football club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	M23	M23	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 club	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 club	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 club	det
4	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 club	compound
5	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	M23	a football club					tree rules

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