Test 3 · Memes, clips and jokes about politicians
Auntie shares the "Saturday school" quote: "Absolute disgrace, I'm livid!" What should she have done?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Auntie, I · What happens: share, be, do · To what, where: school quote
This is test 3 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: Auntie shares the "Saturday school" quote: "Absolute disgrace, I'm livid!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auntie | auntie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shares | nsubj |
| 2 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 quote | det |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 school | punct |
| 5 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 school | compound |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quote | compound |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 school | punct |
| 8 | quote | quote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shares | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 disgrace | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 disgrace | punct |
| 11 | Absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 disgrace | amod |
| 12 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shares | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 livid | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 livid | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 livid | cop |
| 16 | livid | livid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 disgrace | appos |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 livid | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 livid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Auntie | the school quote | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I | livid property | tree rules |
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 she have done?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 done | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should · perfect | Auntie | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Written to the joke page
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 page | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 page | det |
| 4 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 page | compound |
| 5 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Written | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | the joke page | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to page=Recipient |
Option 2
Added an angry face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 face | det |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 face | amod |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Added | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | participle | a angry face | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Checked where the quote came from before sharing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | advcl |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 quote | det |
| 4 | quote | quote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 came | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 sharing | mark |
| 8 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | participle | the quote not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the quote | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | share | gerund | the quote not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Shared it twice to be fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Shared | obj |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Shared | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fair | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fair | cop |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Shared | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | it | twice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | fair 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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