Test 4 · Adverts, slogans and polls
Spooky music, a grey photo and a deep voice say a candidate "can't be trusted". What should you ask?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Spooky music, you · What happens: say, not trust, ask · To what, where: candidate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: Spooky music, a grey photo and a deep voice say a candidate "can't be trusted".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spooky | spooky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 music | amod |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 photo | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 photo | det |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 photo | amod |
| 6 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 music | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 voice | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 music | conj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 candidate | det |
| 13 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 trusted | punct |
| 15 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 trusted | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 trusted | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trusted | aux:pass |
| 18 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 candidate | acl:relcl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 trusted | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Spooky music and a grey photo and a deep voice | a candidate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent candidate=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not trust in a quote | can · passive | a candidate not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |
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 you ask?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 ask | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Which song is playing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 playing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 playing | aux |
| 4 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 playing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · progressive | which song | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
What real evidence is there behind it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 there | nsubj |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evidence | amod |
| 3 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 there | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | evidence | there property | tree rules |
Option 3
Who is the narrator?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 narrator | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 narrator | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrator | det |
| 4 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 narrator | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the narrator | tree rules |
Option 4
Why is the photo grey?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grey | det |
| 4 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grey | compound |
| 5 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the photo grey | why property | tree rules |
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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