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title: An evacuee aged eight arrives at a farm to live with strangers. How… — The Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: An evacuee aged eight arrives at a farm to live with strangers. How would she most likely feel at first? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 34 «The Second 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 wrong
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# Test 6 · ★★ · The Second World War

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An evacuee aged eight arrives at a farm to live with strangers. How would she most likely feel at first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** evacuee · **What happens:** age, arrive, live, feel · **To what, where:** eight, farm

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 34 «The Second 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/34-the-second-world-war/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An evacuee aged eight arrives at a farm to live with strangers.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t6:1
# text = An evacuee aged eight arrives at a farm to live with strangers.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	evacuee	evacuee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **age** | participle | a evacuee *not said here* | eight |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eight=Patient |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | a evacuee |  |  | a farm |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | a evacuee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with strangers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with stranger=Location |

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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:* How would she most likely feel at first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t6:2
# text = How would she most likely feel at first?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | would | evacuee |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at first=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Excited to join the army

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t6:o1:1
# text = Excited to join the army
1	Excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | to-infinitive |  | the army |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Happy that she would never have to see her family again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t6:o2:1
# text = Happy that she would never have to see her family again
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | would | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | her family |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bored, because nothing at all had changed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t6:o3:1
# text = Bored, because nothing at all had changed
1	Bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · perfect · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Homesick and scared, but safer from the bombs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:t6:o4:1
# text = Homesick and scared, but safer from the bombs
1	Homesick	Homesick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bombs	bomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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