Test 9 · Memes, clips and jokes about politicians

Aroha's brother: "news is mid, I just get it from memes" (mid = average). What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, I, best advice · What happens: be, get · To what, where: news, memes

This is test 9 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: Aroha's brother: "news is mid, I just get it from memes" (mid = average).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aroha	Aroha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Aroha	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mid	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mid	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mid	cop
8	mid	mid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mid	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 memes	case
15	memes	meme	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 mid	punct
18	mid	mid	X	_	8 mid	parataxis
19	=	=	SYM	_	20 average	punct
20	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mid	conj
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 mid	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Aroha's brother					mid property	tree rules
2	get in a quote	present	I	news		memes			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from meme=Source

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 the best advice?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 advice	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 advice	amod
5	advice	advice	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	the best advice						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Let a joke lead you to the facts, not replace them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 joke	compound
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joke	det
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lead	nsubj
4	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lead	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 facts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lead	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replace	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 replace	advmod
11	replace	replace	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 lead	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 replace	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	infinitive				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	lead	present	a Let joke	you	the facts	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to fact=Destination
3	not replace	infinitive		facts = fact		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Memes tell the whole story, because they squeeze all the news into one picture

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Memes	meme	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 squeeze	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 squeeze	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 squeeze	nsubj
9	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 news	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 news	det
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squeeze	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 picture	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 picture	nummod
15	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squeeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Memes	the whole story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	squeeze	present	Memes = meme	all news		one picture			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent news=Material into picture=Product

Option 3

Never laugh at memes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 laugh	advmod
2	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 memes	case
4	memes	meme	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	imperative	you not said here			memes			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Memes are always more accurate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Memes	meme	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accurate	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accurate	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 accurate	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 accurate	advmod
5	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Memes					accurate, always property	tree rules

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