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Test 4 · Parties: teams with ideas

A cartoon shows the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey as real animals voting. What should be put right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, real animals · What happens: show, vote, put · To what, where: Republican elephant

This is test 4 of lesson 4 «Parties: teams with ideas» 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: A cartoon shows the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey as real animals voting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
5	Republican	Republican	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 elephant	amod
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 donkey	cc
8	Democrat	Democrat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 donkey	compound
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elephant	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 animals	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obl
13	voting	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 animals	acl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon		the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey			as real animals	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient
2	vote	gerund	real animals not said here						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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.

Sentence 2: What should be put right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 put	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	should · passive						right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only donkeys are allowed to vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 donkeys	advmod
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 vote	mark
6	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		donkeys					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	vote not said to happen	to-infinitive	donkeys not said here						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The animals choose the president by stomping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 choose	nsubj
3	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 president	det
5	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choose	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 stomping	mark
7	stomping	stomp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 choose	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	the animals	the president					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme
2	stomp	gerund	the animals not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Real elephants and donkeys vote in the USA every four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 elephants	amod
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vote	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 donkeys	cc
4	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 elephants	conj
5	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 USA	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 USA	det
8	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 vote	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 years	det
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vote	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	present	Real elephants and donkeys			the USA	year		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are just old cartoon symbols for the two parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 symbols	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 symbols	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 symbols	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 symbols	amod
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 symbols	compound
6	symbols	symbol	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 parties	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parties	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 parties	nummod
10	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 symbols	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	old cartoon symbols				for the two parties	tree rules

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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