Test 8 · ★ · Protests, petitions and young activists
In a cartoon, the town mice line up with signs asking the mayor for a cheese shop, and nobody breaks anything. What is that like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town mice, signs, nobody, that · What happens: line up, ask, break, be · To what, where: mayor, anything
This is test 8 · ★ 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: In a cartoon, the town mice line up with signs asking the mayor for a cheese shop, and nobody breaks anything.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 line | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mice | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mice | compound |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 line | nsubj |
| 8 | line | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 line | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 signs | case |
| 11 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 line | obl |
| 12 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 signs | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mayor | det |
| 14 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asking | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 shop | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shop | det |
| 17 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shop | compound |
| 18 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 breaks | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 breaks | cc |
| 21 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 breaks | nsubj |
| 22 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 line | conj |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 breaks | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 line | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | line up | present | the town mice | with signs; in a cartoon | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | signs not said here | the mayor | for a cheese shop | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mayor=Recipient | |||
| 3 | break | present | nobody | anything | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Patient |
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 that like?
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 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 that | discourse |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A bribe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bribe | det |
| 2 | bribe | bribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A peaceful protest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 protest | det |
| 2 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 protest | amod |
| 3 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A deepfake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 deepfake | det |
| 2 | deepfake | deepfake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A riot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 riot | det |
| 2 | riot | riot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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