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Test 9 · Parties: teams with ideas

Your brother says, "Floating voters are, like, sus, they can't pick a side." What's a fairer view?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, voters, fairer view · What happens: say, float, not pick, be · To what, where: voters, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Your brother says, "Floating voters are, like, sus, they can't pick a side."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Floating	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Floating	punct
6	Floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 says	ccomp
7	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Floating	obj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 like	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	6 Floating	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sus	punct
12	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 like	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pick	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pick	nsubj
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 pick	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 pick	advmod
17	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pick	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 pick	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	float in a quote	gerund		voters					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voter=Agent
3	not pick in a quote	can	voters = voter	a side					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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's a fairer view?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Some say looking at each election fresh is sensible because parties change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sensible	csubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 election	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 election	det
6	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 election	amod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sensible	cop
9	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 change	mark
11	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 change	nsubj
12	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sensible	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund						at each election	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at election=Theme
3	is	present	looking					sensible property	tree rules
4	change	present	parties						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Loyal voters are the only ones allowed to vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 voters	amod
2	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ones	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ones	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ones	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 vote	mark
9	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Loyal voters	the only ones					tree rules
2	allow	participle		the only ones not said here					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	vote not said to happen	to-infinitive	the only ones not said here						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He's right, changing your vote is against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 changing	punct
5	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 law	csubj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 vote	nmod:poss
7	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changing	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 law	cop
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 law	det
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	change	gerund		your vote					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient
3	is	present	changing					against the law	tree rules
4	vote		your						nom vote «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Floating voters vote in boats, so they are odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 voters	amod
2	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 vote	nsubj
3	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 boats	case
5	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 vote	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 odd	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 odd	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 odd	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 odd	cop
10	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vote	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vote	present	Floating voters			boats			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	voters = voter					odd property	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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