Test 4 · School councils and class reps

"It's not fair, he only won cos he's funny, I'm gonna sulk all week" — what is a better way to lose?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: It, he, I, fair · What happens: not be, win, be, sulk, lose · To what, where: better way

This is test 4 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	_	5 fair	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fair	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fair	advmod
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 won	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 won	nsubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 won	advmod
9	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	parataxis
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 funny	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 funny	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 funny	cop
13	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 won	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sulk	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sulk	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sulk	aux
17	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	18 sulk	dep
18	sulk	sulk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fair	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 week	det
20	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sulk	obl:unmarked
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fair	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 fair	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 way	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 way	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 way	det
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
28	to	to	PART	_	29 lose	mark
29	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 way	acl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	It			fair property	tree rules
2	win in a quote	past	he				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	he			funny property	tree rules
4	sulk in a quote	present	I		week		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	fair	a better way			tree rules
6	lose	to-infinitive					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Tell everyone the vote was cheating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vote	det
4	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheating	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cheating	aux
6	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cheat	past · progressive	the vote						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Congratulate the winner and keep sharing your ideas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Congratulate	congratulate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winner	det
3	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Congratulate	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Congratulate	conj
6	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ideas	nmod:poss
8	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sharing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	congratulate	imperative	you not said here	the winner	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules
3	share	gerund	you not said here	your ideas	tree rules

Option 3

Never speak at class meetings again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 speak	advmod
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 meetings	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meetings	compound
5	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 speak	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			class meetings	again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ask the teacher to cancel the result

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cancel	mark
5	cancel	cancel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 result	det
7	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cancel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the teacher				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cancel not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the result					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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