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Emma's dad, a bit salty: "No cars in the centre? How'm I s'posed to get to work?" ("Salty" means annoyed.) What's the balanced view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Salty, balanced view · What happens: s'pos, get, work, mean, be

This is test 11 of lesson 74 «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» of the history 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: Emma's dad, a bit salty: "No cars in the centre?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emma	Emma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Emma	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bit	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dad	appos
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 cars	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cars	punct
10	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cars	det
11	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dad	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 centre	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 centre	det
14	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cars	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dad	punct

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

Sentence 2: How'm I s'posed to get to work?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 s'posed	advmod
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 s'posed	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 s'posed	nsubj
4	s'posed	s'pos	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 s'posed	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 work	mark
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 s'posed	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 s'posed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	s'pos	present · passive	I						tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	work	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: ("Salty" means annoyed.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Salty	punct
3	Salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Salty	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Salty					annoyed property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: What's the balanced view?

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	5 view	det
4	balanced	balanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone agrees nothing should change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 agrees	obj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Everyone	nothing					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	change	should							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Everyone agrees cars must go, so your dad will just have to walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agrees	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agrees	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 walk	mark
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Everyone						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	must	cars						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	future	your dad						tree rules
4	walk	to-infinitive	your dad not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cars are already banned everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 banned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux:pass
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 banned	advmod
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 banned	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Car-free centres have fans and critics, so it is debated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 free	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Car	punct
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 centres	amod
4	centres	centre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 critics	cc
8	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fans	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 debated	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 debated	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 debated	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 debated	aux:pass
13	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	free centres	fans and critics					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Patient
2	debate	present · passive		it					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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