Test 2 · ★★ · Immigration and borders

«is the new boy from Ukraine a refugee or nah» What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new boy · What happens: be · To what, where: new boy, Ukraine, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Ukraine	case
7	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 refugee	det
9	refugee	refugee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nah	nsubj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	16 answer	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 answer	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the new boy and the answer		Ukraine			tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present	the new boy and the answer	the answer					tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because every new pupil in any school is a refugee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 refugee	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 refugee	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 refugee	mark
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 pupil	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pupil	amod
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 refugee	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 school	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 school	det
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pupil	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 refugee	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 refugee	det
12	refugee	refugee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every new pupil in any school	a refugee					tree rules

Option 2

No, because refugees are really just tourists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 tourists	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tourists	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 tourists	mark
4	refugees	refugee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tourists	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tourists	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 tourists	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 tourists	advmod
8	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	refugees	tourists					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, if his family fled the war for safety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fled	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 fled	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 family	nmod:poss
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fled	nsubj
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 war	det
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fled	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 safety	case
10	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	his family	the war				for safety	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Initial_Location

Option 4

No, because there is no war in Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 is	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 is	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Ukraine	case
9	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 war	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no war in Ukraine			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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