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Test 7 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

Chloe's dad in Ottawa, holding his double-double, asks: «why can't they just fly help into Myanmar?» What made help hard?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, they · What happens: hold, ask, not fly, double, make · To what, where: double double, help, Myanmar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: Chloe's dad in Ottawa, holding his double-double, asks: «why can't they just fly help into Myanmar?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Chloe	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asks	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Ottawa	case
5	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 holding	punct
7	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dad	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 double	nmod:poss
9	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 double	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 double	punct
11	double	double	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holding	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dad	punct
13	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 fly	punct
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 fly	advmod
17	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fly	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 fly	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fly	nsubj
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 fly	advmod
21	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asks	parataxis
22	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fly	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 Myanmar	case
24	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fly	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	Chloe's dad in Ottawa not said here	dad's double double					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present	Chloe's dad in Ottawa						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not fly in a quote	can	they	help				into Myanmar result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent help=Theme into myanmar=Result
4	double		dad						nom double «act intransitive»: poss=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: What made help hard?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		help				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material help=Product

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The civil war since the 2021 coup made getting aid in difficult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 war	det
2	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 war	amod
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
4	since	since	ADP	_	7 coup	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coup	det
6	2021	2021	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 coup	nummod
7	coup	coup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 war	nmod
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 made	xcomp
10	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 getting	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 difficult	case
12	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 getting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the civil war since the 2021 coup						tree rules
2	get	gerund	the civil war since the 2021 coup not said here	aid		difficult			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aid=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Earthquakes never need help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	Earthquakes	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 3

Nobody lives in Myanmar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Myanmar	case
4	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Nobody			Myanmar			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in myanmar=Location

Option 4

Myanmar has no airports at all, so planes have nowhere to land in the whole country

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 airports	det
4	airports	airport	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 airports	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
9	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
11	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 land	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 land	mark
13	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 country	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 country	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 country	amod
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Myanmar	no airports		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent airport=Patient
2	have	present	planes						tree rules
3	land	to-infinitive	planes not said here			the whole country		nowhere property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in country=Destination

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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