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Test 9 · ★ · The news: who makes it and how

In a cartoon, a reporter makes up a story and it goes straight on TV with nobody checking. What should be put right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: reporter, nobody · What happens: make up, go, check, put · To what, where: story, cartoon, TV

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 10 «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics 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: In a cartoon, a reporter makes up a story and it goes straight on TV with nobody checking.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reporter	det
6	reporter	reporter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 makes	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 goes	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 makes	conj
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 goes	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 TV	case
16	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	obl
17	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 checking	mark
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 checking	nsubj
19	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 goes	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present	a reporter	a story		a cartoon			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot
2	go	present	reporter			TV		straight property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tv=Location
3	check	gerund	nobody						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 should be put right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 put	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	should · passive						right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Editors check stories and choose what goes in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Editors	editor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	nsubj
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 choose	cc
5	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 check	conj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 choose	ccomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present	Editors	stories					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	choose	infinitive	Editors not said here						tree rules
3	go in	present							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Viewers write all the news themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Viewers	viewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 write	nsubj
2	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 news	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 news	det
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 write	obj
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Viewers	all news					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent news=Recipient themselves=Topic

Option 3

The King checks every news story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 checks	nsubj
3	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 story	det
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 checks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present	the King	every news story					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme

Option 4

Reporters can say anything with no checking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reporters	reporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 say	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 checking	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 checking	det
7	checking	checking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	Reporters	anything				with no checking	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent anything=Theme with checking=Manner

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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