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Test 9 · ★★ · Politicians and promises, as the news reports them

A leaflet: «Lower taxes AND more money for everything!» Aisha's dad: «Both? With what money?» What is he doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aisha · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A leaflet: «Lower taxes AND more money for everything!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leaflet	det
2	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 taxes	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 taxes	punct
5	Lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 taxes	amod
6	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaflet	appos
7	AND	and	CCONJ	_	9 money	cc
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 money	amod
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taxes	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 everything	case
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 money	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 leaflet	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 leaflet	punct

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

Sentence 2: Aisha's dad: «Both?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Aisha	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Both	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Both	punct
6	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dad	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dad	punct

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

Sentence 3: With what money?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 money	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 money	det
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 money	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 money	punct

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

Sentence 4: What is he doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	Aisha						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Saying the candidate is a liar for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 liar	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 candidate	det
3	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 liar	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 liar	det
6	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 sure	case
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 liar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		the candidate					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent candidate=Topic
2	is a	present	Saying	a liar				for sure	tree rules

Option 2

Saying the candidate is surely honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 honest	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 candidate	det
3	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 honest	cop
5	surely	surely	ADV	_	6 honest	advmod
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		the candidate					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent candidate=Topic
2	is	present	Saying					honest, surely property	tree rules

Option 3

Throwing the leaflet away unread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 leaflet	det
3	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throwing	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Throwing	advmod
5	unread	unread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Throwing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	gerund		the leaflet				away, unread property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaflet=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Asking how the promise would be paid for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 paid	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 promise	det
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 paid	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 paid	aux:pass
7	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Asking	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	7 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	would · passive		the promise					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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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