Test 3 · Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics

«can't sleep, saw scary headlines on mum's phone, is the world ending fr» (fr = for real). What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: world, best answer · What happens: not sleep, see, end, be · To what, where: scary headlines, phone, fr

This is test 3 of lesson 14 «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» 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: «can't sleep, saw scary headlines on mum's phone, is the world ending fr» (fr = for real).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	conj
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 headlines	amod
8	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 phone	case
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 phone	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 mum	case
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 headlines	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ending	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ending	aux
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ending	nsubj
17	ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sleep	advcl
18	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ending	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 fr	punct
21	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	conj
22	=	=	SYM	_	24 real	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 real	case
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleep	conj
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 real	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not sleep in a quote	can				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	past		scary headlines	mum's phone	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headline=Stimulus
3	end in a quote	present · progressive	the world	fr		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fr=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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

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 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	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 answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No; the news shows what went wrong today, not everything in the world

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 shows	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 news	det
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shows	ccomp
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 everything	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 everything	advmod
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 shows	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 everything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	the news						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past					today	wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 headlines	amod
3	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Read	obj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 sleep	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sleep	nsubj
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Read	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	more headlines					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Topic
2	sleep	present	you						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, headlines are always about the end of the world, so you should stay awake and keep watch

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 end	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 end	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 end	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 end	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stay	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 stay	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 stay	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stay	aux
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stay	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 keep	cc
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stay	conj
20	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	headlines		about the end	of the world; always property	tree rules
2	stay	should	you			awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	you not said here	watch			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme

Option 4

Never tell your mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		your mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

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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