Test 4 · ★★★ · Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes

Oisin in Belfast asks: «is that a wee hospital truck, the one with the red crescent?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oisin, best answer · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: wee hospital truck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: Oisin in Belfast asks: «is that a wee hospital truck, the one with the red crescent?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Belfast	case
3	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Oisin	nmod
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 truck	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 truck	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 truck	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 truck	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 truck	det
10	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 truck	amod
11	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 truck	compound
12	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 truck	appos
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 crescent	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crescent	det
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crescent	amod
19	crescent	crescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Oisin in Belfast						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		a wee hospital truck					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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is an army truck carrying weapons, painted to look like a hospital so that nobody shoots at it

The tree, 19 words

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 truck	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 truck	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 truck	det
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 truck	compound
5	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 truck	acl
7	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carrying	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 painted	punct
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 truck	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 painted	xcomp
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 hospital	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hospital	det
14	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 shoots	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 shoots	nsubj
18	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 look	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shoots	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a army truck			tree rules
2	carry	gerund	a army truck not said here	weapons			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
3	paint	participle		a army truck not said here			tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive				like a hospital	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	shoot	present	nobody		hospital		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at it=Destination

Option 2

It is a pizza delivery van

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	6 van	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 van	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 van	det
4	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delivery	compound
5	delivery	delivery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 van	compound
6	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a delivery van					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is the Red Crescent, a neutral helper like the Red Cross, used in many Muslim countries

The tree, 17 words

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 Crescent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Crescent	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Crescent	det
4	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Crescent	flat
5	Crescent	Crescent	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helper	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 helper	det
8	neutral	neutral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 helper	amod
9	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Crescent	appos
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 Cross	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cross	det
12	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Cross	flat
13	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 helper	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 helper	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 countries	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 countries	amod
18	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 countries	amod
19	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the Red Crescent					tree rules
2	use	participle		a neutral helper like the Red Cross not said here		many Muslim countries			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It belongs to one side of the war only

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	2 belongs	nsubj
2	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 side	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 side	nummod
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belongs	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 war	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 war	det
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 side	nmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	8 war	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	It					to one side of the war	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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