Test 9 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

Fatima asks her aunt: «Won't they shoot you?» Which answer is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fatima, they, answer · What happens: ask, not shoot, be · To what, where: aunt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Fatima asks her aunt: «Won't they shoot you?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 aunt	nmod:poss
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 shoot	punct
7	Wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 shoot	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 shoot	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shoot	nsubj
10	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 shoot	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 shoot	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 shoot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Fatima		Fatima's aunt				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent aunt=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not shoot in a quote	future	they	Fatima's aunt = aunt					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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 answer is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which answer					true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Aid workers are never in any danger, because every fighter in every war always obeys the rules

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 workers	compound
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 danger	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 danger	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 danger	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 danger	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 danger	det
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 obeys	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 obeys	mark
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fighter	det
11	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 obeys	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 war	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 war	det
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fighter	nmod
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 obeys	advmod
16	obeys	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 danger	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rules	det
18	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 obeys	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Aid workers			any danger			tree rules
2	obey	present	every fighter in every war	the rules				always property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme

Option 2

Aid workers carry the biggest guns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 workers	compound
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	nsubj
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guns	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 guns	amod
6	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Aid workers	the biggest guns					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

Option 3

The logo makes bullets bounce off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 logo	det
2	logo	logo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bullets	bullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 bounce	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the logo	bullets					tree rules
2	bounce off	infinitive	bullets not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The rules of war protect aid workers, but 2023 and 2024 were the deadliest years for them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rules	det
2	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protect	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 war	case
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rules	nmod
5	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 workers	compound
7	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protect	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 years	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 years	cc
10	2023	2023	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 years	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 2024	cc
12	2024	2024	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 2023	conj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 years	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 years	det
15	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 years	amod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protect	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	protect	present	the rules of war	aid workers		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Beneficiary
2	is a	past	2023	the deadliest years	for rules = rule	tree rules
3	rule		war			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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