Test 11 · ★ · Protests, petitions and young activists

"petitions are pointless, it's just names" — what is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: petitions, it, best answer · What happens: be · To what, where: names · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 38 «Protests, petitions and young activists» 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	_	4 pointless	punct
2	petitions	petition	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pointless	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pointless	cop
4	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 names	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 names	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 names	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 names	advmod
9	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pointless	parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 names	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 pointless	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pointless	parataxis
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 what	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pointless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	petitions		pointless property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	names		tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer			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 · ← Mova's choice

Names on paper are against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 law	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 paper	case
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Names	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 law	cop
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 law	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Names on paper					against the law	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many names can show leaders that lots of people care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 names	amod
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 care	obj
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 care	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lots	nmod
10	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 leaders	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	can	Many names	leaders					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leader=Recipient
2	care	present	lots of people	leaders					tree rules

Option 3

Petitions automatically become laws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Petitions	petition	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	3 become	advmod
3	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	Petitions	laws				automatically property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Petitions are only for grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Petitions	petition	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ups	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ups	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 ups	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 ups	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Petitions					for grown ups	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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