Test 10 · School councils and class reps

"class rep just goes to the meetings and never tells us nothing" — what is missing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: class rep · What happens: go, not tell, be · To what, where: meetings, nothing, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 37 «School councils and class reps» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rep	punct
2	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rep	compound
3	rep	rep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 meetings	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meetings	det
8	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 goes	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tells	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 tells	advmod
11	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 goes	conj
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tells	iobj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 tells	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 missing	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 missing	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 missing	cop
18	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tells	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	class rep			the meetings		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meeting=Initial_Location
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present	class rep not said here	nothing	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient nothing=Topic
3	is	present					missing property	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.

The options

Option 1

Reps are not allowed to report back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reps	rep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 report	mark
6	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 report	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Reps					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	report back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Reps not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A good rep brings back what happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rep	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rep	amod
3	rep	rep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	nsubj
4	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 brings	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happened	nsubj
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brings	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	present	a good rep						vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Reps should only talk to teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reps	rep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 teachers	case
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	should	Reps					to teachers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent

Option 4

A good rep keeps everything secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rep	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rep	amod
3	rep	rep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 keeps	obj
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a good rep	everything				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

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