Test 10 · Memes, clips and jokes about politicians
A politician posts a meme mocking herself with "Fair enough!" What is worth remembering?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: politician, meme · What happens: post, mock, be, remember · To what, where: meme, politician
This is test 10 of lesson 13 «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» 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 politician posts a meme mocking herself with "Fair enough!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 politician | det |
| 2 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 posts | nsubj |
| 3 | posts | post | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 meme | det |
| 5 | meme | meme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 posts | obj |
| 6 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 meme | acl |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 mocking | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Fair | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fair | punct |
| 10 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mocking | obl |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 Fair | advmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 posts | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 posts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | post | present | a politician | a meme | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meme=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mock | gerund | a meme not said here | politician | with Fair | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
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 worth remembering?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 worth | cop |
| 3 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 worth | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 worth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | worth property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remember | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Politicians cannot make jokes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | Politicians | jokes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product |
Option 2
It means she will quit politics and become a comedian on the telly instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 quit | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 quit | aux |
| 5 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 means | ccomp |
| 6 | politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 quit | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 become | cc |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quit | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 comedian | det |
| 10 | comedian | comedian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 telly | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 telly | det |
| 13 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comedian | nmod |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 5 quit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | quit | future | she | politics | instead property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent politics=Source | |||
| 3 | become | infinitive | she not said here | a comedian on the telly | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Her team had nothing to do with it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 team | nmod:poss |
| 2 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Her team | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Her team not said here | nothing not said here | with team | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A joke from a politician is still part of her campaign
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 politician | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 politician | det |
| 5 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joke | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 part | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 part | advmod |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 campaign | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 campaign | nmod:poss |
| 11 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a joke from a politician | part | still | of her campaign | tree rules | ||
| 2 | campaign | her = she | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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