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Test 3 · ★★ · Immigration and borders

Mateo's brother asks at the border fence, "Is that to keep people out or in?" What do people argue about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, people · What happens: ask, be, keep out, argue · To what, where: border fence, that, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Mateo's brother asks at the border fence, "Is that to keep people out or in?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mateo	Mateo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mateo	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 fence	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fence	det
7	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fence	compound
8	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fence	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fence	punct
11	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 that	cop
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 asks	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asks	xcomp
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 keep	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 keep	compound:prt
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 in	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	14 keep	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Mateo's brother			the border fence			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present		that					tree rules
3	keep out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Mateo's brother not said here	people					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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 do people argue about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present · do-support	people						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Whether Mexico is really a country or not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	2 Mexico	case
2	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 country	obl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 country	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 country	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 not	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 country	conj

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

Option 2

Whether the fence is made of steel or of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fence	det
3	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 steel	case
7	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 wood	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the fence				of steel or wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Whether the deserts near the border get hot in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 deserts	det
3	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 border	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 border	det
6	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserts	nmod
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	infinitive	the deserts near the border				summer	hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Whether walls fix the reasons people try to cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 fix	mark
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fix	nsubj
3	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 try	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reasons	det
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fix	obj
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 try	nsubj
7	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cross	mark
9	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	walls	the reasons					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	try	present	people						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cross not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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