--- title: Two soldiers from enemy armies kick a football together at Christmas… — The First World War · tree and pragmatics description: Two soldiers from enemy armies kick a football together at Christmas 1914. What does that tell us? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 33 «The First World War» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/33-the-first-world-war/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [The First World War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/33-the-first-world-war/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · The First World War Two soldiers from enemy armies kick a football together at Christmas 1914. What does that tell us? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Two soldiers, that · **What happens:** kick, tell · **To what, where:** football, Christmas, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 33 «The First World War» of the history 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/history/33-the-first-world-war/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Two soldiers from enemy armies kick a football together at Christmas 1914. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:t4:1 # text = Two soldiers from enemy armies kick a football together at Christmas 1914. 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 enemy enemy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 compound _ _ 5 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 kick kick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 1914 1914 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kick** | present | Two soldiers from enemy armies | a football | | Christmas | | together *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent football=Patient at christmas=Location | 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 does that tell us? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:t4:2 # text = What does that tell us? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | that | | us | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Ordinary soldiers did not hate each other ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:t4:o1:1 # text = Ordinary soldiers did not hate each other 1 Ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 hate hate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 5 obj _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hate** | past · do-support | Ordinary soldiers | each | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} They had stopped the war for ever and gone home ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:t4:o2:1 # text = They had stopped the war for ever and gone home 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 home home ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past · perfect | They | the war | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** | participle | They *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} They were on the same team ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:t4:o3:1 # text = They were on the same team 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | They | | | the same team | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} It never happened ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:t4:o4:1 # text = It never happened 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **happen** | past | It | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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