Test 1 · Adverts, slogans and polls

Mateo's mate: "our street's 9 signs to 4, so our guy's def winning the whole state". What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: street · What happens: win, sign, be · To what, where: whole state

This is test 1 of lesson 12 «Adverts, slogans and polls» 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: Mateo's mate: "our street's 9 signs to 4, so our guy's def winning the whole state".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mateo	Mateo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mateo	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signs	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 signs	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 signs	punct
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 street	nmod:poss
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signs	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 street	case
9	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 signs	nummod
10	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 4	case
12	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 signs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 def	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 def	advmod
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 guy	nmod:poss
16	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 def	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 guy	case
18	def	def	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 signs	parataxis
19	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 def	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 state	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 state	amod
22	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 winning	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 def	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 signs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win in a quote	gerund		the whole state					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	sign in a quote		our street						nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Only the state with most signs votes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 state	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 state	det
3	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 votes	case
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 signs	amod
6	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 votes	compound
7	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 state	nmod

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

Option 2

Nothing, signs always predict the winner, because every family that votes puts one up on the lawn

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 signs	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 predict	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 predict	advmod
5	predict	predict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winner	det
7	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 predict	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 puts	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 puts	mark
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 family	det
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 puts	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 votes	nsubj
13	votes	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 family	acl:relcl
14	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 predict	advcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 puts	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 puts	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 lawn	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lawn	det
19	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 puts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	predict	present	Nothing signs	the winner		always property	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot winner=Topic
2	vote	present	every family				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	put up	present	every family	one	the lawn		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on lawn=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A street of signs is not a vote count; most people never put one up

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 street	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 count	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 signs	case
4	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 street	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 count	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 count	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 count	det
8	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 count	compound
9	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 put	advmod
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 count	advcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 put	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a street of signs	a vote count					tree rules
2	not put up	past	most people	one					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Signs count as real votes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	nsubj
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 votes	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 votes	amod
5	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	Signs					as real votes	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as vote=Attribute

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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