Test 2 · Climate: hot summers and hot arguments
An American kid says: «my cousin says EVs are mid and gas trucks are bussin', who's right fr?» Which answer is fair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: American kid, cousin, EVs, gas trucks, answer · What happens: say, be · To what, where: right fr · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 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: An American kid says: «my cousin says EVs are mid and gas trucks are bussin', who's right fr?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 10 | EVs | ev | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mid | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mid | cop |
| 12 | mid | mid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bussin | cc |
| 14 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trucks | compound |
| 15 | trucks | truck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bussin | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bussin | cop |
| 17 | bussin | bussin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mid | conj |
| 18 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 17 bussin | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 fr | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fr | cop |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fr | amod |
| 22 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mid | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 mid | punct |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | a American kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | my cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | EVs | mid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | gas trucks | bussin property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | right fr | 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: Which answer is fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 answer | det |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fair | cop |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which answer | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nobody anywhere disagrees about cars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 disagrees | nsubj |
| 2 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 disagrees | advmod |
| 3 | disagrees | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 cars | case |
| 5 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disagrees | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disagree | present | Nobody | about cars; anywhere property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about car=Topic |
Option 2
Electric cars suit every family perfectly, whatever trips they make and whatever they cost
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cars | amod |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suit | nsubj |
| 3 | suit | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suit | obj |
| 6 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 3 suit | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whatever | punct |
| 8 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 suit | obj |
| 9 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whatever | nsubj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 trips | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 whatever | cc |
| 13 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 whatever | nsubj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cost | nsubj |
| 15 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 whatever | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | present | Electric cars | every family | perfectly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | trips = trip | trips not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product | ||||
| 3 | cost | present | trips = trip | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Petrol trucks give off no warming gas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trucks | compound |
| 2 | trucks | truck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 give | compound:prt |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 gas | det |
| 6 | warming | warming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gas | compound |
| 7 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give off | present | Petrol trucks | no warming gas | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Each has pluses and minuses; it depends on cost, trips and pollution
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pluses | plus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 minuses | cc |
| 5 | minuses | minus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pluses | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 depends | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 depends | nsubj |
| 8 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 cost | case |
| 10 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 depends | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trips | punct |
| 12 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cost | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pollution | cc |
| 14 | pollution | pollution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cost | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Each | pluses and minuses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plus=Patient | ||||
| 2 | depend | present | it | on cost and trips and pollution | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on cost=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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