Exam question 3 · Memes, clips and jokes about politicians

Select the response consistent with the established principle concerning humour directed at politicians.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, direct · To what, where: response, principle concerning humour, politicians

This is exam question 3 of lesson 13 «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 humour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 humour	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 principle	amod
8	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 humour	compound
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 humour	amod
10	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
11	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 humour	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 politicians	case
13	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 directed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	direct	participle		the principle concerning humour not said here	politicians	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent at politician=Eventuality

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Humour addressing appearance constitutes a legitimate form of fact checking concerning the conduct of politicians

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 constitutes	nsubj
2	addressing	address	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Humour	acl
3	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 addressing	obj
4	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 form	det
6	legitimate	legitimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 form	amod
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 constitutes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fact	case
9	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 form	nmod
10	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fact	acl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 checking	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 conduct	det
13	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 politicians	case
15	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 conduct	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	address	gerund	Humour not said here	appearance	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Destination
2	constitute	present	Humour	a legitimate form of fact	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme form=Pivot
3	check	gerund	fact not said here		tree rules
4	concern	gerund	fact not said here	the conduct of politicians	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus conduct=Experiencer
5	form			fact	nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	conduct			politicians	nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Humour addressing the conduct of a person differs from humour addressing that person's appearance

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 differs	nsubj
2	addressing	address	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Humour	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 conduct	det
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 addressing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conduct	nmod
8	differs	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 humour	case
10	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 differs	obl
11	addressing	address	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 humour	acl
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appearance	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 person	case
15	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 addressing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	address	gerund	Humour not said here	the conduct of a person		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Destination
2	differ	present	Humour		from humour	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from humour=Co-Theme
3	address	gerund	humour not said here	that person's appearance		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Destination
4	conduct			a person		nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Humour concerning politicians is invariably accurate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humour	humour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 accurate	advcl
2	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 politicians	amod
3	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Humour	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 accurate	cop
5	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	6 accurate	advmod
6	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	humour	infinitive		concerning politicians					tree rules
2	is	present						accurate, invariably property	tree rules

Option 4

All humour concerning politicians is prohibited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 humour	advmod
2	humour	humour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 politicians	amod
4	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 humour	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prohibited	aux:pass
6	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 humour	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	humour	present		concerning politicians					tree rules
2	prohibit	present · passive							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»

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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