Test 11 · Adverts, slogans and polls
A party's slogan is three catchy words. Ruby's teacher asks what it actually promises. Where should Ruby look?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: slogan, teacher, Ruby · What happens: be, ask, promise, look · To what, where: three catchy words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 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: A party's slogan is three catchy words.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slogan | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 party | case |
| 4 | slogan | slogan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 words | cop |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 words | nummod |
| 7 | catchy | catchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 words | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a party's slogan | three catchy words | tree rules |
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: Ruby's teacher asks what it actually promises.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ruby | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 promises | obj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 promises | nsubj |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 promises | advmod |
| 8 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Ruby's teacher | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | teacher | actually property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
Sentence 3: Where should Ruby look?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | should | Ruby | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
In a poll about the party
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 poll | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 poll | det |
| 3 | poll | poll | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 party | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poll | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
On the party's posters only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 posters | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 posters | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 party | case |
| 5 | posters | poster | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 posters | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | post | the party | nom poster «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In the party's manifesto
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 manifesto | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manifesto | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 party | case |
| 5 | manifesto | manifesto | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In the attack ads about the party
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 ads | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ads | det |
| 3 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ads | compound |
| 4 | ads | ad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 party | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 party | det |
| 7 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ads | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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