Test 6 · ★ · Votes, parties and the people in charge
Your cousin in Leeds says «Grandad HAS to tell us who he voted for, he's family.» Is that right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Grandad, that · What happens: say, have, tell, vote for, be · To what, where: us, family · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Your cousin in Leeds says «Grandad HAS to tell us who he voted for, he's family.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 HAS | punct |
| 7 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 HAS | nsubj |
| 8 | HAS | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 HAS | xcomp |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 voted | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 voted | nsubj |
| 14 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 voted | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 family | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 family | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 family | cop |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 HAS | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 HAS | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your cousin in Leeds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Grandad | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Grandad not said here | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | vote for in a quote | past | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Grandad | family | tree rules |
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: Is that right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
No, a vote is secret, even from family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 secret | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 vote | det |
| 4 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 secret | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 secret | cop |
| 6 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 family | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 family | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 secret | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a vote | family | secret property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
No, because Grandad isn't allowed to vote
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 allowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 allowed | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 allowed | mark |
| 4 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 allowed | aux:pass |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 allowed | advmod |
| 7 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 vote | mark |
| 9 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allowed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Grandad | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | vote not said to happen | to-infinitive | Grandad not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yes, family must always share their votes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 share | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 share | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 share | advmod |
| 6 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 votes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | must | family | their votes | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vote | their = they | nom vote «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Yes, but only at Christmas dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 dinner | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 dinner | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 dinner | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dinner | case |
| 6 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dinner | compound |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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