Test 11 · ★★★ · Healthcare: who pays when you are ill
A clever riddle: Country A pays all care from taxes; Country B leaves it to private insurance. Which problem is each most likely to argue about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clever riddle, Country, problem · What happens: country, pay, leave, be, argue · To what, where: A, care, taxes, private insurance
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» 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 clever riddle: Country A pays all care from taxes; Country B leaves it to private insurance.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 riddle | det |
| 2 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 riddle | amod |
| 3 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pays | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Country | punct |
| 5 | Country | country | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 riddle | appos |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Country | obj |
| 7 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 care | det |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pays | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 taxes | case |
| 11 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pays | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaves | punct |
| 13 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | nsubj |
| 14 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Country | flat |
| 15 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pays | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leaves | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 insurance | case |
| 18 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 insurance | amod |
| 19 | insurance | insurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | country | infinitive | A | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | present | a clever riddle | all care | taxes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Asset | |||
| 3 | leave | present | Country | care | private insurance | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to insurance=Recipient |
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: Which problem is each most likely to argue about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 problem | det |
| 2 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 likely | cop |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 argue | mark |
| 8 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 likely | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 argue | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which problem | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | to-infinitive | which problem not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both of them argue only about the weather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 argue | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
| 4 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 weather | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 weather | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weather | det |
| 8 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 argue | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Both | about the weather | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about weather=Topic |
Option 2
Neither has any arguments, because both systems work perfectly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 arguments | det |
| 4 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 work | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 systems | det |
| 8 | systems | system | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 work | nsubj |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 10 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 9 work | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Neither | any arguments | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Patient | ||||
| 2 | work | present | both systems | perfectly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A about big bills for people without cover, B about long waiting lists
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bills | det |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 big | advmod |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bills | amod |
| 4 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bills | nmod |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 cover | case |
| 8 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lists | punct |
| 10 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lists | compound |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 waiting | amod |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lists | compound |
| 14 | lists | list | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bills | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A about waiting lists, B about big bills for people without cover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lists | det |
| 2 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 3 waiting | mark |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lists | amod |
| 4 | lists | list | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 B | punct |
| 6 | B | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lists | conj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 bills | case |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bills | amod |
| 9 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lists | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bills | nmod |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 cover | case |
| 13 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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