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Test 3 · ★★ · Politicians and promises, as the news reports them

Kid in Sydney: «vote me captain, no homework ever, no cap». What's the problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kid, problem · What happens: vote, be · To what, where: me

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Kid in Sydney: «vote me captain, no homework ever, no cap».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vote	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Sydney	case
3	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kid	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 vote	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 vote	punct
6	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 vote	obj
8	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vote	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 homework	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 homework	det
11	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 captain	appos
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 homework	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 captain	appos
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote in a quote	infinitive	Kid in Sydney	me					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme captain=Result

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 problem?

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	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, he can easily do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	he	it				easily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

He must be the oldest kid

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	6 kid	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kid	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kid	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kid	det
5	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 kid	amod
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	He	the oldest kid					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A captain can't cancel homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cancel	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cancel	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cancel	advmod
5	cancel	cancel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cancel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cancel	can	a captain	homework					tree rules

Option 4

Captains are not allowed to say «no cap»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captains	captain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Captains					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Captains not said here	no cap					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cap=Topic

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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