Test 5 · Adverts, slogans and polls

"Nobody asked me, so the poll's rubbish innit" says Fatima's cousin. What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nobody, cousin, best answer · What happens: ask, say, be · To what, where: rubbish innit, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: "Nobody asked me, so the poll's rubbish innit" says Fatima's cousin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
2	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 says	advcl
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 innit	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poll	det
8	poll	poll	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 innit	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 poll	case
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 innit	compound
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cousin	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Fatima	case
16	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	Nobody	the poll's rubbish innit	Fatima's cousin = cousin				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	Fatima's cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 the best answer?

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	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Polls must ask every single person in the country, or the result does not count at all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polls	poll	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 person	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 count	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 count	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 result	det
13	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 count	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 count	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 count	advmod
16	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	must	Polls		every single person	the country			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient
2	not count	present · do-support	the result			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Polls are made up without asking anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polls	poll	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 asking	mark
6	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	advcl
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 asking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present · passive		Polls					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	ask speech: ask	gerund			anyone				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 3

Polls only ask politicians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polls	poll	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 ask	advmod
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Polls	politicians					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent politician=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Polls ask a smaller group picked to look like the whole country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polls	poll	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 group	det
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 group	amod
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
6	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 group	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 picked	xcomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 country	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 country	amod
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Polls	a smaller group		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent group=Recipient
2	pick	participle		a smaller group not said here		tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive			like the whole country	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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