Test 8 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

Tyler in Miami says: «Haiti's war is two armies, right?» How do you correct it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tyler, war, Haiti, you · What happens: say, be, war, correct · To what, where: two armies, war · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Tyler in Miami says: «Haiti's war is two armies, right?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Miami	case
3	Miami	Miami	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tyler	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 armies	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 armies	punct
7	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 war	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Haiti	case
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 armies	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 armies	cop
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 armies	nummod
12	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	12 armies	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Tyler in Miami		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Haiti's war	two armies	tree rules
3	war in a quote		Haiti		nom war «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: How do you correct it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 correct	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 correct	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 correct	nsubj
4	correct	correct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 correct	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 correct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correct speech: disagree	present · do-support	you	war					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

There is no trouble in Haiti

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 trouble	det
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Haiti	case
6	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 trouble	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no trouble in Haiti			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is mostly armed gangs controlling streets, with foreign police sent to help

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	5 gangs	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gangs	cop
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 gangs	advmod
4	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gangs	amod
5	gangs	gang	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	controlling	control	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gangs	acl
7	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 controlling	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 police	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 police	case
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 police	amod
11	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gangs	conj
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 police	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 help	mark
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	armed gangs and foreign police	mostly property	tree rules
2	control	gerund	armed gangs and foreign police not said here	streets		vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme
3	send	participle		foreign police not said here		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	help	to-infinitive				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Two armies from Europe fight there over the island, and Haiti's own people have left

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 armies	nummod
2	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fight	case
4	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fight	compound
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 there	obl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 island	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 island	det
9	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 there	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
12	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 people	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Haiti	case
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 left	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 left	aux
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 there	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · perfect	Haiti's own people						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Haiti is at war with Kenya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Haiti	haiti	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 war	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 war	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 war	case
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Kenya	case
6	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 war	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Haiti			war		with Kenya	tree rules

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