Test 4 · ★ · Guns, school safety and arguments about schools

An older boy in Cork fumes: «phone ban? that's pure muck, the teachers are a bunch of eejits.» What is the fairest point?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: that, teachers, fairest point · What happens: be · To what, where: pure muck, bunch

This is test 4 · ★ 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: An older boy in Cork fumes: «phone ban? that's pure muck, the teachers are a bunch of eejits.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 fumes	case
5	Cork	Cork	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fumes	compound
6	fumes	fume	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boy	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 ban	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 ban	punct
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ban	compound
10	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 muck	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 muck	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 muck	cop
14	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 muck	amod
15	muck	muck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ban	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bunch	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 teachers	det
18	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bunch	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bunch	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bunch	det
21	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 muck	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 eejits	case
23	eejits	eejit	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bunch	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 muck	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 ban	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	pure muck and a bunch					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the teachers	a bunch				of eejits	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 fairest point?

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 point	det
4	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 point	amod
5	point	point	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 fairest point						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

People disagree: some say bans help focus, others say phones help in emergencies

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disagree	nsubj
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 disagree	parataxis
6	bans	ban	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	nsubj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	focus	focus	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 disagree	parataxis
12	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 help	nsubj
13	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 emergencies	case
15	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	disagree	present	People		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help	present	bans		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	focus	infinitive	bans not said here		vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	others		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	help	present	phones	emergencies	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Teachers banned phones so they could sell them and keep all the money for the staff room

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 banned	nsubj
2	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 banned	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 sell	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sell	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sell	aux
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 banned	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sell	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sell	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 money	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 money	det
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
16	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 room	compound
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ban	past	Teachers	phones		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer phone=Theme
2	sell	could	Teachers = teacher	phones = phone		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	Teachers = teacher not said here	all money	for the staff room	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3

Phone bans are against the law in Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bans	compound
2	bans	ban	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 law	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 law	cop
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 law	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ireland	case
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 law	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Phone bans			Ireland		against the law	tree rules

Option 4

Everyone agrees phones should be allowed all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 agrees	obj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	aux:pass
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 agrees	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allowed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Everyone	phones					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent phone=Topic
2	allow	should · passive	Everyone not said here				day		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»

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