Test 11 · ★ · Guns, school safety and arguments about schools
Hannah messages from Manchester: «our kid's well mardy, says UK coppers carry guns everywhere.» What is true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: UK coppers · What happens: say, carry, be · To what, where: guns · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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 messages from Manchester: «our kid's well mardy, says UK coppers carry guns everywhere.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 messages | compound |
| 2 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mardy | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Manchester | case |
| 4 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 messages | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 mardy | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 mardy | punct |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kid | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mardy | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mardy | aux |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 mardy | advmod |
| 11 | mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mardy | conj |
| 14 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 coppers | compound |
| 15 | coppers | copper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | ccomp |
| 17 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 carry | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mardy | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 mardy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | present | UK coppers | guns | everywhere property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |
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
UK police officers carry swords instead of guns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 police | compound |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 officers | compound |
| 3 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 8 guns | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 instead | fixed |
| 8 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | police officers | swords | instead guns | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
Option 2
UK police are not allowed handcuffs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 police | compound |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | handcuffs | handcuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allowed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | UK police | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal handcuff=Theme |
Option 3
Every UK police officer carries a gun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 officer | det |
| 2 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 officer | compound |
| 3 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 officer | compound |
| 4 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carries | nsubj |
| 5 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gun | det |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carries | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | every UK police officer | a gun | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Most UK police officers do not carry guns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 police | amod |
| 2 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 police | compound |
| 3 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 officers | compound |
| 4 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 carry | advmod |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry | present · do-support | police officers | guns | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |
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