Test 2 · ★★★ · Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes
A family flees bombing and reaches a new country. What would the 1951 Refugee Convention forbid that country to do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, Refugee Convention · What happens: flee, reach, forbid, do · To what, where: bombing, new country, country
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» 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: A family flees bombing and reaches a new country.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flees | nsubj |
| 3 | flees | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bombing | bombing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flees | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 reaches | cc |
| 6 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flees | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reaches | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flees | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | present | a family | bombing | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bombing=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | present | a family not said here | a new country | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=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: What would the 1951 Refugee Convention forbid that country to do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 forbid | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 forbid | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Convention | det |
| 4 | 1951 | 1951 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Refugee | nummod |
| 5 | Refugee | Refugee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Convention | compound |
| 6 | Convention | Convention | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 forbid | nsubj |
| 7 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forbid | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 country | acl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | would | the Refugee Convention | that country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the Refugee Convention not said here | that country not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Let their children go to school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 children | nmod:poss |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | present | their children | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Send them back to the danger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Send | obj |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Send | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 danger | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 danger | det |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send back | imperative | you not said here | them = they | the danger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to danger=Destination |
Option 3
Give them a place to sleep at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a place | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient place=Theme | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Let them find work and pay taxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 taxes | cc |
| 6 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taxes | compound |
| 7 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 work | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | them = they not said here | work and pay taxes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic |
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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