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Test 8 · Adverts, slogans and polls

A volunteer with a clipboard knocks in Winnipeg: "Got a sec, eh? What matters most to ya?" What can Dad do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: volunteer, Dad · What happens: knock, get, matter, do · To what, where: Winnipeg, sec, ya

This is test 8 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 volunteer with a clipboard knocks in Winnipeg: "Got a sec, eh?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 volunteer	det
2	volunteer	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocks	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 clipboard	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 clipboard	det
5	clipboard	clipboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 volunteer	nmod
6	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Winnipeg	case
8	Winnipeg	Winnipeg	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 knocks	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Got	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Got	punct
11	Got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knocks	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sec	det
13	sec	sec	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Got	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eh	punct
15	eh	eh	INTJ	_	11 Got	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 knocks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	present	a volunteer with a clipboard			Winnipeg			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in winnipeg=Location
2	get in a quote	past	a volunteer with a clipboard not said here	a sec					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sec=Stimulus

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 matters most to ya?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 matters	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 ya	case
5	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 matters	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 matters	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 matters	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present			ya				vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to you=Experiencer

Sentence 3: What can Dad do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	Dad						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He must sign up to the party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sign	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sign	aux
3	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sign	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 party	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 party	det
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign up	must	He					to the party	vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He must buy a leaflet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buy	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 leaflet	det
5	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	must	He	a leaflet					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaflet=Theme

Option 3

He must say who he will vote for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 vote	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 vote	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 vote	aux
7	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	7 vote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	must	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	vote	future							vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Chat, or ask the volunteer a question back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 volunteer	det
6	volunteer	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 question	det
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	4 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Chat	the volunteer					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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