Test 8 · ★★★ · Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes

Mia's school in Nelson ships 400 tins; a charity could buy the same food near the crisis. What is likely, as charities say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school, charities · What happens: buy, be, say · To what, where: same food, crisis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Mia's school in Nelson ships 400 tins; a charity could buy the same food near the crisis.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 school	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mia	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buy	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ships	case
5	Nelson	Nelson	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ships	compound
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 school	nmod
7	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 tins	nummod
8	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ships	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 buy	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 charity	det
11	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buy	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 buy	aux
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 food	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 food	amod
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buy	obj
17	near	near	ADP	_	19 crisis	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crisis	det
19	crisis	crisis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buy	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 buy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	could	Mia's school in Nelson ships and 400 tins	the same food		the crisis			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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 is likely, as charities say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 say	mark
6	charities	charity	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	charities						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Buying near the crisis is faster and cheaper, which is why money helps more

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 faster	csubj
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 crisis	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crisis	det
4	crisis	crisis	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buying	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 faster	cop
6	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 helps	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cheaper	cc
8	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 faster	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 why	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 why	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 why	cop
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 helps	advmod
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 helps	nsubj
14	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 helps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund		the crisis		vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Buying		fast property	tree rules
3	be		Buying not said here			tree rules
4	is	present			why property	tree rules
5	help	present	money			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tins cost less to fly than to buy nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cost	nsubj
2	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 cost	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cost	advcl
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 buy	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 buy	mark
8	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fly	advcl
9	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	8 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Tins	less		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value
2	fly	to-infinitive	Tins not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buy	to-infinitive	Tins not said here		nearby property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Charities cannot buy food anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charities	charity	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buy	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buy	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 buy	advmod
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obj
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not buy	can	Charities	food				anywhere property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4

Shipped tins always arrive first, because ships are the fastest way to move food around the world

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shipped	ship	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tins	amod
2	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrive	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 arrive	advmod
4	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 arrive	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 way	mark
8	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 way	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrive	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 move	mark
14	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	acl
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 move	obj
16	around	around	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ship	participle					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	present	Shipped tins			always, first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	ships	the fastest way			tree rules
4	move	to-infinitive	Shipped tins not said here	food	the world		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent food=Theme around world=Trajectory

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