Test 12 · ★★ · Immigration and borders

A TV host says "irregular migration" and another says "illegal immigration". What can you learn from the words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: TV host, another, you · What happens: say, learn · To what, where: irregular migration, illegal immigration, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Immigration and borders» 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: A TV host says "irregular migration" and another says "illegal immigration".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 host	det
2	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 host	compound
3	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 migration	punct
6	irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 migration	amod
7	migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 migration	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
10	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 immigration	punct
13	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 immigration	amod
14	immigration	immigration	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 immigration	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a TV host	irregular migration					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent migration=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	another	illegal immigration					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent immigration=Topic

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 can you learn from the words?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 learn	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can	you			the words			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Topic from word=Source

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The words mean refugees only and nobody else, so they say exactly the same

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	refugees	refugee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	3 mean	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nobody	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 only	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nobody	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	parataxis
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	15 same	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the words	refugees					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refugee=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	words = word	the same					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent same=Topic

Option 2

Only one of them is speaking proper English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 speaking	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 speaking	aux
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 English	amod
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 speaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · progressive	one of them	proper English					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Each word choice tells you something about the speaker's view

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 choice	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choice	compound
3	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tells	iobj
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tells	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 view	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speaker	det
9	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 view	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 speaker	case
11	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	each word choice	something	you			about the speaker's view	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic
2	view		the speaker						nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They are both talking about tourists on holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talking	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talking	aux
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 talking	advmod
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 tourists	case
6	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talking	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 holiday	case
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present · progressive	They			holiday		about tourists; both property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about tourist=Topic

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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