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Test 8 · ★★ · Arguing politely and never calling names

In a cartoon, the cat says the dog wants "to eat all the food in the world", but the dog only said he was hungry. What trick is that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, dog · What happens: say, want, eat, be · To what, where: cartoon, food, world, trick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, the cat says the dog wants "to eat all the food in the world", but the dog only said he was hungry.

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	7 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wants	nsubj
10	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wants	xcomp
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 food	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 food	det
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 said	advmod
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	parataxis
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hungry	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hungry	cop
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the cat			a cartoon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	the dog						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	eat not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	all food		the world			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the dog						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	dog					hungry property	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.

Sentence 2: What trick is that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 trick	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 trick	nmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		what trick				that nmod	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A steelman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 steelman	det
2	steelman	steelman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A survey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 survey	det
2	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A compromise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 compromise	det
2	compromise	compromise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A strawman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 strawman	det
2	strawman	strawman	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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