Test 9 · ★★ · Arguing politely and never calling names

"Anyone who votes for that lot is thick" — what is the fairer view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Anyone, fairer view · What happens: vote, be

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	9 thick	punct
2	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 thick	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 votes	nsubj
4	votes	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Anyone	acl:relcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 lot	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 votes	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thick	cop
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 thick	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 thick	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thick	conj
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 view	det
15	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 view	amod
16	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 what	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	vote in a quote	present		for that lot goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for lot=Goal
2	is in a quote	present	Anyone	thick property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the fairer view		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 · ✓ the right answer

People vote for many reasons and can be kind and clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 vote	nsubj
2	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 reasons	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reasons	amod
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 vote	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kind	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 vote	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 clever	cc
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	vote	present	People	for many reasons goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for reason=Goal
2	is	can	People not said here	kind property	tree rules
3	be		People not said here		tree rules

Option 2

Only stupid people vote at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 stupid	advmod
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vote	nsubj
4	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 vote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	present	stupid people			all			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Voting shows how clever you are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 clever	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Voting						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					clever property	tree rules

Option 4

Everyone who votes that way is exactly the same kind of person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 kind	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 votes	nsubj
3	votes	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Everyone	acl:relcl
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 votes	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	cop
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 kind	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kind	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kind	amod
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 person	case
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	present		that way					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	is a	present	Everyone	the same kind				of person; exactly property	tree rules

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