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Test 3 · ★ · Votes, parties and the people in charge

Uncle at the telly: «Bloody politicians, all promises and no delivery.» What is he grumbling about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle · What happens: grumble

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 31 «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Uncle at the telly: «Bloody politicians, all promises and no delivery.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telly	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 telly	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 telly	det
4	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 politicians	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 politicians	punct
7	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 politicians	amod
8	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 telly	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promises	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 promises	det
11	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 politicians	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 delivery	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 delivery	det
14	delivery	delivery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 politicians	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 telly	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 telly	punct

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

Sentence 2: What is he grumbling about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 grumbling	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grumbling	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grumbling	nsubj
4	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	4 grumbling	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grumbling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	present · progressive	Uncle						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He wants politicians to deliver leaflets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 deliver	mark
5	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deliver	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	politicians					tree rules
2	deliver not said to happen	to-infinitive	politicians not said here	leaflets					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaflet=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He thinks politicians break their promises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
4	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 promises	nmod:poss
6	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	present	politicians	politicians's promises					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
3	promise		politicians = politician						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He thinks the post is always late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 post	det
4	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 late	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 late	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 late	advmod
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the post					always, late property	tree rules

Option 4

He is angry about a parcel he ordered that never came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 parcel	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parcel	det
6	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ordered	nsubj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 parcel	acl:relcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					about a parcel; angry property	tree rules
2	order	past	he	a parcel not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme
3	not come	past	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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