Test 6 · Memes, clips and jokes about politicians
"That cartoon with two cats, it's giving primary school" (it's giving = it looks like). Grandad says it is about two leaders arguing. What is a political cartoon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, Grandad, two leaders, political cartoon · What happens: give, look, say, be, argue · To what, where: primary school, two leaders · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: "That cartoon with two cats, it's giving primary school" (it's giving = it looks like).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 giving | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cats | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cats | nummod |
| 6 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cartoon | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 giving | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 giving | aux |
| 10 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 school | amod |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 giving | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 giving | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 giving | aux |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 giving | advcl |
| 18 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 20 looks | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looks | nsubj |
| 20 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 giving | ccomp |
| 21 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 20 looks | mark |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 giving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · progressive | that cartoon with two cats | primary school | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | present · progressive | cartoon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | present | cartoon | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: Grandad says it is about two leaders arguing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leaders | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaders | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 two | advmod |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 leaders | nummod |
| 7 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | arguing | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 leaders | acl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | cartoon | two leaders | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | two leaders not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What is a political cartoon?
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cartoon | det |
| 4 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cartoon | amod |
| 5 | cartoon | cartoon | 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 | a political cartoon | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An opinion about the news told with drawings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 opinion | det |
| 2 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 news | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opinion | nmod |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 opinion | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 drawings | case |
| 8 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | a opinion about the news not said here | with drawings | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A photo of real cats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 photo | det |
| 2 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cats | case |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cats | amod |
| 5 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 photo | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A fact check in pictures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 check | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 check | compound |
| 3 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pictures | case |
| 5 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 check | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A children's story about cats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 children | case |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 cats | case |
| 6 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 story | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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