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Test 6 · ★ · Debating and discussion

Mo says, "Homework should be banned because kids need time to play, and doctors say play is healthy." Which part is the evidence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mo, kids, doctors, play, part · What happens: say, ban, need, play, be · To what, where: Homework, evidence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 49 «Debating and discussion» of the English 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: Mo says, "Homework should be banned because kids need time to play, and doctors say play is healthy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 banned	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 banned	punct
5	Homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 banned	nsubj:pass
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 banned	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 banned	aux:pass
8	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	ccomp
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 need	mark
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 need	nsubj
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 banned	advcl
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 need	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 play	mark
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
17	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
19	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 healthy	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 healthy	cop
21	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 say	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mo						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ban in a quote	should · passive		Homework					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	need in a quote	present	kids				time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	play in a quote	to-infinitive	kids not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	doctors						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	play					healthy property	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: Which part is the evidence?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 evidence	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 evidence	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 evidence	det
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 evidence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which part	the evidence					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Homework should be banned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banned	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 banned	aux:pass
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	should · passive		Homework					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Kids need time to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 play	mark
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 time	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Kids				time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	play	to-infinitive	Kids not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Doctors say play is healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 healthy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 healthy	cop
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Doctors						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	play					healthy property	tree rules

Option 4

The word "because"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 because	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	2 word	nmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 because	punct

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

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