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Test 11 · Debates and rows on chat shows

Bloke on telly: "Mr Moderator, cut her mic, her time's up!" What is the disagreement about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mr Moderator, disagreement · What happens: cut, be · To what, where: mic

This is test 11 of lesson 11 «Debates and rows on chat shows» 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: Bloke on telly: "Mr Moderator, cut her mic, her time's up!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 telly	case
3	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bloke	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Moderator	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Moderator	punct
6	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Moderator	compound
7	Moderator	moderator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bloke	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Moderator	acl:relcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mic	nmod:poss
11	mic	mic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 up	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 time	nmod:poss
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 up	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 time	case
16	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Moderator	conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Moderator	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Moderator	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut in a quote	past	Mr Moderator and her time's up not said here	her mic					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mic=Product

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 is the disagreement about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 disagreement	det
4	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	4 disagreement	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

Whether cutting microphones is fair or too controlling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 fair	mark
2	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fair	csubj
3	microphones	microphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cutting	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	cop
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 controlling	cc
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 controlling	advmod
8	controlling	control	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		microphones					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset microphone=Product
2	is	present	cutting					fair property	tree rules
3	control	gerund	cutting not said here						vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Whether microphones are legal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 legal	mark
2	microphones	microphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 legal	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 legal	cop
4	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	microphones					legal property	tree rules

Option 3

Whether the audience may speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 speak	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 audience	det
3	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	may	the audience						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Whether debates need moderators at all, or should just let the leaders shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 need	mark
2	debates	debate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 let	advcl
4	moderators	moderator	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 need	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 let	advmod
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaders	det
13	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shout	nsubj
14	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 let	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	debates	moderators		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot moderator=Theme
2	let	should							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	shout speech: express	present	the leaders						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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