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Test 4 · ★★ · Politicians and promises, as the news reports them

Dad in Toronto: «They're all liars, eh.» Which is the most accurate answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: be · To what, where: liars, accurate answer

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Dad in Toronto: «They're all liars, eh.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liars	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Toronto	case
3	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 liars	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 liars	punct
6	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liars	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 liars	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 liars	advmod
9	liars	liar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eh	punct
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	9 liars	discourse
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 liars	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 liars	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Dad in Toronto	liars				all 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 is the most accurate answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 answer	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 accurate	advmod
5	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answer	amod
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

No, politicians never lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lie	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 lie	advmod
5	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lie	present	politicians						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only foreign politicians lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 politicians	advmod
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 politicians	amod
3	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lie	nsubj
4	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	foreign politicians						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some lie, some don't — we can check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	conj
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 do	advmod
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 check	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 check	aux
10	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lie	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	Some						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not do	present	some						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	check	can	we						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, every politician always lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 lies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 politician	det
4	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lies	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 lies	advmod
6	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	every politician					always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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