Test 6 · ★ · Guns, school safety and arguments about schools

Sam's mate in London asks: «bruv, why's a footballer going on about school dinners?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, footballer, best answer · What happens: ask, be, go on · To what, where: bruv, footballer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Sam's mate in London asks: «bruv, why's a footballer going on about school dinners?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asks	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 London	case
5	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod
6	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asks	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 footballer	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 footballer	advmod
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 footballer	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 footballer	det
14	footballer	footballer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bruv	conj
15	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 footballer	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 going	compound:prt
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 dinners	case
18	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dinners	compound
19	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 going	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 asks	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Sam's mate in London	bruv and a footballer		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bruv=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	Sam's mate in London not said here	a footballer		tree rules
3	go on in a quote	gerund	a footballer not said here		about school dinners	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about dinner=Location

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 answer?

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 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	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 best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Footballers must cook school dinners by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Footballers	footballer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cook	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cook	aux
3	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dinners	compound
5	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cook	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 law	case
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	must	Footballers	school dinners				by law	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He'd needed free meals as a kid and campaigned for hungry children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	aux
3	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meals	amod
5	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needed	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 kid	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 campaigned	cc
10	campaigned	campaign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 children	case
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 campaigned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past · perfect	He	free meals				as a kid	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme
2	campaign	past	He not said here					for hungry children	tree rules

Option 3

It was just an advert for his football club's new kit and nothing to do with food

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 advert	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 advert	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 advert	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 advert	det
5	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	12 kit	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 club	nmod:poss
8	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 club	compound
9	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kit	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 club	case
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kit	amod
12	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advert	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nothing	cc
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 advert	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nothing	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 food	case
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a advert				for his football club's new kit	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive						with food	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He wanted to sell his own brand of lunches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sell	mark
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brand	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brand	amod
7	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 lunches	case
9	lunches	lunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brand	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	He		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his own brand of lunches	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Theme
3	brand		his = he	lunches	nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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