Test 10 · Adverts, slogans and polls

Amira, Dublin: "your man's face is on every pole, who takes 'em all down?" (your man = that man)

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amira, pole · What happens: be, take down · To what, where: pole, 'em

This is test 10 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: Amira, Dublin: "your man's face is on every pole, who takes 'em all down?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amira	Amira	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 pole	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Dublin	punct
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Amira	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 pole	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pole	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 man	nmod:poss
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 face	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 man	case
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pole	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pole	cop
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 pole	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 pole	det
13	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 takes	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 takes	nsubj
16	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pole	acl:relcl
17	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 takes	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 'em	det
19	down	down	ADV	_	16 takes	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 pole	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pole	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Amira and Dublin			every pole			tree rules
2	take down in a quote	present	every pole	'em = they				down property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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: (your man = that man)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 man	nmod:poss
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	=	=	SYM	_	6 man	punct
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The voters who liked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 voters	det
2	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 voters	acl:relcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	the voters	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The candidates, within a week after the vote, or they can be fined

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 candidates	det
2	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fined	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 week	punct
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 candidates	nmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 vote	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vote	det
9	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 week	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fined	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 fined	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fined	nsubj:pass
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fined	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 fined	aux:pass
15	fined	fine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fine	can · passive		the candidates within a week after the vote					vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3

Nobody, they stay up forever on the poles until the wind and rain take them down

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 stay	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stay	compound:prt
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 poles	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poles	det
9	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 take	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rain	cc
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wind	conj
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	15 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	present	Nobody			the poles		forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pole=Location
2	take down	infinitive	the wind and rain	poles = pole					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

The other parties, for free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parties	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parties	amod
3	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 parties	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 free	case
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parties	nmod

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

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