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Test 10 · ★ · Guns, school safety and arguments about schools

Dinner goes silent after Dylan's aunt and uncle argue about guns. What is the best thing to remember?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dinner, aunt, best thing · What happens: go, argue, be, remember

This is test 10 · ★ 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: Dinner goes silent after Dylan's aunt and uncle argue about guns.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 argue	mark
5	Dylan	Dylan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 aunt	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Dylan	case
7	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 argue	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 uncle	cc
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 aunt	conj
10	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	advcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 guns	case
12	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 argue	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Dinner					silent property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	argue speech: disagree	present	Dylan's aunt and uncle					about guns	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about gun=Topic

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 best thing to remember?

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 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 remember	mark
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	remember	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One of them must want children harmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 want	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obj
7	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	must	One of them	children					tree rules
2	harm not said to happen	participle	children not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

When both want children safe, the argument is about how to get there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 want	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	advcl
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	obj
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 want	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 argument	det
8	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	nsubj:outer
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	cop
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 get	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	both	children				safe property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot child=Theme
2	is	present	the argument			there		get property	tree rules

Option 3

Gun laws are not something people disagree about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laws	compound
2	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 something	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 something	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 something	advmod
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 disagree	nsubj
7	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 something	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 disagree	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Gun laws	something					tree rules
2	disagree	present	people					about property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only politicians are allowed to talk about guns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 politicians	advmod
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 guns	case
8	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		politicians					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	politicians not said here					about guns	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about gun=Topic

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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