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description: A friend says Gandhi won India's freedom with a big army. What is wrong? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

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A friend says Gandhi won India's freedom with a big army. What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, Gandhi · **What happens:** say, win, be · **To what, where:** freedom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A friend says Gandhi won India's freedom with a big army.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t6:1
# text = A friend says Gandhi won India's freedom with a big army.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Gandhi	Gandhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | past | Gandhi | India's freedom |  |  |  | with a big army | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t6:2
# text = What is wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Gandhi was British

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t6:o1:1
# text = Gandhi was British
1	Gandhi	Gandhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Gandhi |  |  |  |  | british *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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India won freedom in 1922

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t6:o2:1
# text = India won freedom in 1922
1	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | India | freedom |  | 1922 |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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He led peaceful campaigns such as the Salt March

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t6:o3:1
# text = He led peaceful campaigns such as the Salt March
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Salt	Salt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | He | peaceful campaigns |  |  |  | such the Salt March | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, Gandhi was a great general who beat the British

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t6:o4:1
# text = Nothing, Gandhi was a great general who beat the British
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	Gandhi	Gandhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Gandhi | a great general |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat** | past | a great general | the British |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location british=Theme |

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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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