Test 5 · Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics

Hannah writes a ten-step plan to stop a war and feels terrible when nothing happens. What would you tell her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hannah, nothing, you · What happens: write, stop, feel, happen, tell · To what, where: step plan, war, Hannah · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: Hannah writes a ten-step plan to stop a war and feels terrible when nothing happens.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plan	det
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 step	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ten	punct
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	compound
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writes	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 plan	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 war	det
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feels	cc
13	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 writes	conj
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feels	xcomp
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 happens	advmod
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 happens	nsubj
17	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 feels	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	present	Hannah	a step plan		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	Hannah not said here	a war		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality
3	feel	present	Hannah not said here		terrible property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	happen	present	nothing			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 would you tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	you		Hannah				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Plans by children always work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 children	case
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Plans	nmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Plans by children					always property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plan		children						nom plan «cognition transitive»: by=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Write a longer plan with twenty steps and send it to every leader in the world

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plan	det
3	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 plan	amod
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 steps	case
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 steps	nummod
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Write	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 send	cc
9	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Write	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 send	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 leader	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 leader	det
13	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here	a longer plan				with twenty steps	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme
2	send	infinitive	you not said here	plan		the world		to every leader	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to leader=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is not her job to fix the world, but small kindness counts

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	5 job	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 job	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 job	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 job	nmod:poss
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fix	mark
7	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 job	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fix	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 counts	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 counts	cc
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kindness	amod
13	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 counts	nsubj
14	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 job	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	her job	tree rules
2	fix	to-infinitive		the world	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent world=Patient
3	count	present	small kindness		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Stop caring about anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 anyone	case
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 caring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	care	gerund	you not said here					about anyone	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about anyone=Stimulus

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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