Test 4 · ★★ · Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs o…
Mia at school: "My mum and dad voted different, are they gonna split up??" What's the honest answer?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Mia, honest answer · What happens: vote, split up, be · To what, where: Mia
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 52 «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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: Mia at school: "My mum and dad voted different, are they gonna split up??"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 split | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 school | case |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mia | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 voted | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 voted | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mum | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voted | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dad | cc |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mum | conj |
| 10 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mia | acl:relcl |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voted | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mia | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 split | aux |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 split | nsubj |
| 15 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 split | dep |
| 16 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 split | compound:prt |
| 18 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 16 split | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 split | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote in a quote | past | My mum and dad | Mia at school not said here | different property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent mia=Result | |||
| 2 | split up in a quote | present | Mia at school | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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's the honest answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the honest answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
No, because only one of their votes will count
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 3 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 one | case |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 votes | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 votes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 count | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 count | aux |
| 10 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | future | their votes | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | vote | their = they | nom vote «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No; lots of families vote differently and stay together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 vote | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 vote | punct |
| 3 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vote | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 families | case |
| 5 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lots | nmod |
| 6 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 6 vote | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stay | cc |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 vote | conj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | present | lots of families | differently property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay together | infinitive | lots of families not said here | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yes; they will have to live in different areas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 have | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 areas | case |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 areas | amod |
| 10 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | they | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | they not said here | different areas | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yes; it is against the law for a married couple to vote differently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 law | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 law | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 law | cop |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 law | det |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 couple | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 couple | det |
| 10 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 couple | amod |
| 11 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 law | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 vote | mark |
| 13 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 law | acl |
| 14 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 13 vote | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | against the law; for a married couple | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vote | to-infinitive | differently property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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