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Test 11 · ★★ · Politicians and promises, as the news reports them

Politician: «I never said that!» A reporter has a recording. What settles it best?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, reporter · What happens: not say, have, settle · To what, where: that, recording · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 442 «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday 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: Politician: «I never said that!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Politician	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 said	advmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 said	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert in a quote	past	I	that					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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: A reporter has a recording.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reporter	det
2	reporter	reporter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 recording	det
5	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a reporter	a recording					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recording=Patient

Sentence 3: What settles it best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 settles	nsubj
2	settles	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 settles	obj
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 settles	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 settles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	present		recording				well property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

The options

Option 1

Asking his best friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			his best friend				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Playing the recording

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 recording	det
3	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		the recording					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recording=Theme

Option 3

Waiting a year or two to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl:unmarked
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 year	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Waiting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund					year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Counting who believes him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 believes	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 believes	nsubj
3	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	believe	present		him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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