Test 6 · Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics
Fatima's dad, a nurse, gets upset when the news talks about nurses' pay. Why?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, news, nurses · What happens: get, talk, pay
This is test 6 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: Fatima's dad, a nurse, gets upset when the news talks about nurses' pay.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Fatima | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nurse | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nurse | det |
| 6 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dad | punct |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gets | xcomp |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 talks | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 news | det |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talks | nsubj |
| 13 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gets | advcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 pay | case |
| 15 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pay | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 nurses | case |
| 17 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talks | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Fatima's dad and a nurse | upset property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | the news | about nurses's pay | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pay=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pay | nurses | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Nurses are not allowed to watch TV at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 watch | mark |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 watch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Nurses | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nurses not said here | TV | all | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The decision touches his own job
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 decision | det |
| 2 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touches | nsubj |
| 3 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 job | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 job | amod |
| 6 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touches | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | present | the decision | decision's own job | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme job=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | job | decision | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
He wants to be a politician one day soon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 politician | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 politician | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 politician | det |
| 6 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 politician | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 wants | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | He | soon property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a politician | day | tree rules |
Option 4
He hates the news reader on that channel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hates | nsubj |
| 2 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reader | det |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reader | compound |
| 5 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hates | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 channel | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 channel | det |
| 8 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hates | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | He | the news reader | that channel | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reader=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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