Test 3 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

Someone mutters: «why should I care, Sudan's miles away, sod it.» What is the fair reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Someone, fair reply · What happens: mutter, care, sod, be · To what, where: miles, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 28 «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» 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: Someone mutters: «why should I care, Sudan's miles away, sod it.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 mutters	nsubj
2	mutters	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 mutters	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 care	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 care	advmod
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 care	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 care	nsubj
8	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mutters	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 care	punct
10	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 miles	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Sudan	case
12	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 care	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	8 care	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sod	punct
15	sod	sod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 care	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sod	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mutters	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 mutters	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	present	Someone			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	care in a quote	should	Someone	Sudan's miles	away property	tree rules
3	sod in a quote	infinitive	Someone not said here	it		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

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 fair reply?

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 reply	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	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 fair reply						tree rules

The options

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

Millions of people like you lost their homes; caring and learning still count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lost	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 people	case
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Millions	nmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 people	nmod
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 homes	nmod:poss
8	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lost	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 caring	punct
10	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lost	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 learning	cc
12	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 caring	conj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 count	advmod
14	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	lose	past	Millions of people like you	Millions's homes		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality
2	care	gerund	Millions of people like you not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	learn	gerund	Millions of people like you not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	count	present	Millions of people like you not said here		still	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It doesn't affect any real people, because only soldiers live in the places where the fighting is

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	4 affect	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 affect	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 affect	advmod
4	affect	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 people	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 affect	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 live	mark
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 soldiers	advmod
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	nsubj
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 affect	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 places	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 places	det
15	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 places	nmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fighting	det
18	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 where	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not affect	present · do-support	It	any real people			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
2	live	present	soldiers		the places		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
3	is	present	the fighting			where property	tree rules

Option 3

Caring about it is against the rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 rules	csubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Caring	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rules	cop
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 rules	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rules	det
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	gerund						about it	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
2	is	present	Caring					against the rules	tree rules

Option 4

Sudan is closer than your street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 street	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 street	nmod:poss
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sudan					than your street; close property	tree rules

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