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title: Why did the Chinese railway workers deserve to be remembered? — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the Chinese railway workers deserve to be remembered? Test 10 of lesson 39 «Canada: a short story» 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.
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# Test 10 · Canada: a short story

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Why did the Chinese railway workers deserve to be remembered?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Chinese railway workers · **What happens:** deserve, remember

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This is test 10 of lesson 39 «Canada: a short story» 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/39-canada-a-short-story/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t10:1
# text = Why did the Chinese railway workers deserve to be remembered?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | past · do-support | the Chinese railway workers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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 {#o1}

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They fought at Vimy Ridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t10:o1:1
# text = They fought at Vimy Ridge
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Vimy	Vimy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ridge	Ridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | They |  |  | Vimy Ridge |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They did the most dangerous work building the railway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t10:o2:1
# text = They did the most dangerous work building the railway
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	building	build	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | They | the dangerous work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **build** | gerund | the dangerous work *not said here* | the railway |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset railway=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They designed the maple leaf flag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t10:o3:1
# text = They designed the maple leaf flag
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past | They | the leaf flag |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They owned the railway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t10:o4:1
# text = They owned the railway
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | They | the railway |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot railway=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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