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Test 11 · Climate: hot summers and hot arguments

Aisha's uncle in Sydney says: «heaps of smoke this arvo, sky's gone orange, it's 'cos nobody cleared the leaves, yeah nah?» What is the fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, sky, fair answer · What happens: say, be · To what, where: heaps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 21 «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» 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: Aisha's uncle in Sydney says: «heaps of smoke this arvo, sky's gone orange, it's 'cos nobody cleared the leaves, yeah nah?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Aisha	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Sydney	case
5	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 heaps	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 heaps	punct
9	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 smoke	case
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heaps	nmod
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 arvo	det
13	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smoke	nmod:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 orange	punct
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 orange	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 orange	cop
17	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 orange	amod
18	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heaps	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cleared	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cleared	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cleared	cop
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 cleared	punct
23	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	25 cleared	mark
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 cleared	nsubj
25	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 orange	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaves	det
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cleared	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nah	punct
29	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	30 nah	discourse
30	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 heaps	discourse
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Aisha's uncle in Sydney	heaps of smoke this arvo					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent heap=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	sky					orange property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	sky					clear property	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.

Sentence 2: What is the fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Bushfires only happen in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bushfires	bushfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Bushfires				winter		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The sky turns orange because of the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turns	xcomp
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 Moon	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 because	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the sky					because the Moon; orange property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dry fuel matters, and hotter, drier years make fires worse too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fuel	amod
2	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matters	nsubj
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hotter	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hotter	cc
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 matters	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
8	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 years	amod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hotter	conj
11	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obj
12	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 make	xcomp
13	too	too	ADV	_	3 matters	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Dry fuel						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	make	present	drier years	fires				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

Option 4

Only clearing matters; the weather plays no part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 clearing	advmod
2	clearing	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 plays	csubj
3	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clearing	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 clearing	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weather	det
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clearing	obj
7	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 part	det
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear	gerund		matters					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent matter=Beneficiary weather=Product
2	play	present	clearing	no part					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme

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