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Test 11 · ★ · Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends

Some people say some beliefs are too important to pretend to agree about. What do others say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, beliefs, others · What happens: say, be, pretend, agree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 15 «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» 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: Some people say some beliefs are too important to pretend to agree about.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 beliefs	det
5	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 important	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 important	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 important	advmod
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pretend	mark
10	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 important	csubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 agree	mark
12	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pretend	xcomp
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 agree	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some people						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	some beliefs					important property	tree rules
3	pretend	to-infinitive							tree rules
4	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive						about property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What do others say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	others						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Beliefs never matter in the end, not even a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matter	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 matter	advmod
3	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matter	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 little	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 little	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 little	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 matter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	Beliefs				in the end		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No election is worth losing your family over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 election	det
2	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worth	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	cop
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 worth	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 family	nmod:poss
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 losing	obj
8	over	over	ADV	_	5 losing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no election					worth property	tree rules
2	lose over	gerund	no election not said here	your family				over property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Eventuality

Option 3

Only the loudest belief counts at a family dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 counts	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 belief	det
3	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 belief	amod
4	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counts	nsubj
5	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dinner	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dinner	compound
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	the loudest belief			a family dinner			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Families should never talk to each other again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 talk	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	should	Families				again	to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent

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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