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title: Why did food leaving Ireland during the famine make people so angry? — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Irelan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did food leaving Ireland during the famine make people so angry? Test 3 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 3 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

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Why did food leaving Ireland during the famine make people so angry?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** food · **What happens:** do, leave, make · **To what, where:** Ireland, people

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This is test 3 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t3:1
# text = Why did food leaving Ireland during the famine make people so angry?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | food *not said here* | Ireland |  |  | during the famine |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | food | people |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material people=Product |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ships took only the best potatoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t3:o1:1
# text = Ships took only the best potatoes
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Ships | the best potatoes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
People were starving while food was shipped away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t3:o2:1
# text = People were starving while food was shipped away
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	shipped	ship	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | past · progressive | People |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ship away** | past · passive |  | food |  |  |  | away *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The food was poisoned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t3:o3:1
# text = The food was poisoned
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | past · passive |  | the food |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The food went to France as a gift from the British king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t3:o4:1
# text = The food went to France as a gift from the British king
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the food |  |  | France |  | as a gift; from the British king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to france=Initial\_Location from king=Destination |

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**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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