Test 1 · ★★ · Arguing politely and never calling names

"your idea's well dumb, bruv" — what is a better way to disagree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: idea · What happens: be, disagree · To what, where: better way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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	_	6 dumb	punct
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 idea	nmod:poss
3	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dumb	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dumb	advmod
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	csubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dumb	vocative
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dumb	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 dumb	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 way	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 disagree	mark
17	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 way	acl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	your idea		bruv vocative; dumb, well property	tree rules
2	is a	present		a better way		tree rules
3	disagree	to-infinitive				vn correspond-36.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

"Your face is dumb too."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dumb	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 face	nmod:poss
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dumb	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dumb	cop
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 dumb	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dumb	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dumb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Your face					dumb property	tree rules

Option 2

Saying nothing and sulking for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Saying	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sulking	cc
4	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 week	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sulking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	sulk	gerund					week		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

"Whatever, loser."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 loser	punct
2	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 loser	det:predet
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loser	punct
4	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loser	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 loser	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"I don't agree, and here's why..."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 agree	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 agree	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 agree	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 agree	advmod
5	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 here	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 here	cc
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 agree	obl
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 why	cop
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 here	parataxis
11	...	...	PUNCT	_	5 agree	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not agree speech: agree in a quote	present · do-support	I						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present						why property	tree rules

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