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Test 5 · ★ · Protests, petitions and young activists

The news calls a protest "mostly peaceful with some violence". A boy says, "So every single person there was violent." What is better?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: news, boy, single person · What happens: call, say, be · To what, where: protest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: The news calls a protest "mostly peaceful with some violence".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 protest	det
5	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 protest	punct
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 peaceful	advmod
8	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 protest	amod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 violence	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 violence	det
11	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 peaceful	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 violence	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	the news	a protest					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent protest=Recipient

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: A boy says, "So every single person there was violent."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 violent	punct
6	So	so	ADV	_	12 violent	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 person	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 violent	nsubj
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 person	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 violent	cop
12	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 violent	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 violent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	every single person					violent property	tree rules

Sentence 3: What is better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nobody there broke anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 broke	nsubj
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Nobody	advmod
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Nobody	anything					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The news made the whole protest up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whole	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 protest	nsubj
6	protest	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 protest	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the news						tree rules
2	protest up speech: disagree	present	the whole						vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Most were peaceful while a few broke things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 peaceful	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 peaceful	cop
3	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 things	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 things	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
7	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 peaceful	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Most					peaceful property	tree rules

Option 4

Everyone there broke windows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 broke	nsubj
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Everyone	advmod
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Everyone	windows					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient

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