Test 1 · ★ · Guns, school safety and arguments about schools

Hannah's Texan cousin shrugs: «y'all have no guns in shops? we're fixin' to buy bait right next to 'em, that's just normal round here.» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Texan cousin, y'all, we, that · What happens: shrug, have, fixin, buy, be · To what, where: guns, shops, bait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» 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: Hannah's Texan cousin shrugs: «y'all have no guns in shops? we're fixin' to buy bait right next to 'em, that's just normal round here.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hannah	case
3	Texan	texan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cousin	amod
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shrugs	nsubj
5	shrugs	shrug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	y'all	y'all	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shrugs	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 guns	det
11	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 shops	case
13	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 guns	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shrugs	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fixin	nsubj
16	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fixin	aux
17	fixin	fixin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 shrugs	advcl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 fixin	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 buy	mark
20	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fixin	xcomp
21	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 buy	obj
22	right	right	ADV	_	23 next	advmod
23	next	next	ADV	_	20 buy	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 'em	case
25	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 next	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 normal	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 normal	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 normal	cop
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 normal	advmod
30	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shrugs	parataxis
31	round	round	ADV	_	32 here	advmod
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 normal	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 normal	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 shrugs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shrug	present	Hannah's Texan cousin				tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	y'all	no guns	shops		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient
3	fixin in a quote	present · progressive	we				tree rules
4	buy in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	bait		next property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bait=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	that		here	normal 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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Gun rules differ a lot between countries, and each grew from its own history

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rules	compound
2	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 differ	nsubj
3	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 differ	obl
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 countries	case
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lot	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 differ	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 history	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 history	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 history	amod
15	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	differ	present	Gun rules	a lot between countries					vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	each					from lot's own history	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from history=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Texas has no rules at all about guns, so anyone of any age can buy one anywhere

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 rules	det
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rules	nmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 guns	case
8	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rules	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 buy	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	16 buy	advmod
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 buy	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 age	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 age	det
14	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 anyone	nmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 buy	aux
16	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	parataxis
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 buy	obj
18	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Texas	no rules		all		about guns	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
2	buy	can	anyone	one				anywhere property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3

Guns are sold the same way in every country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	aux:pass
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · passive		Guns		every country			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient way=Theme

Option 4

The UK sells guns beside fishing rods too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 UK	det
2	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sells	nsubj
3	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sells	obj
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 rods	case
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rods	compound
7	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sells	obl
8	too	too	ADV	_	3 sells	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	the UK	guns		fishing rods			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

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