Test 7 · ★★ · Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Irel…
In a game, Canada's Parliament has only English signs and French is banned. What should be fixed?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Parliament · What happens: have, ban, fix · To what, where: English signs, game, French
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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: In a game, Canada's Parliament has only English signs and French is banned.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 game | punct |
| 5 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Parliament | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Canada | case |
| 7 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 signs | advmod |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 signs | amod |
| 11 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 banned | cc |
| 13 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 banned | aux:pass |
| 15 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 has | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Canada's Parliament | English signs | a game | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient | |||
| 2 | ban | present · passive | French | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 should be fixed?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fixed | aux:pass |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | should · passive | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Canada's Parliament works in both English and French
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Parliament | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Canada | case |
| 3 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 works | nsubj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 English | case |
| 6 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 English | cc:preconj |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 works | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 French | cc |
| 9 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 English | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Canada's Parliament | in English and French | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in english=Theme |
Option 2
Canada's only language is French
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 language | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Canada | case |
| 3 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 language | amod |
| 4 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 French | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 French | cop |
| 6 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Canada's only language | French | tree rules |
Option 3
Canada's Parliament is in London
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Parliament | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Canada | case |
| 3 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 London | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 London | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 London | case |
| 6 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Canada's Parliament | London | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Canada does not have a parliament
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 parliament | det |
| 6 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | Canada | a parliament | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parliament=Patient |
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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