Test 5 · ★★★ · Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim

"politicians are all ducks, I saw it in a cartoon lol" — what is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: politicians, ducks · What happens: be, see · To what, where: ducks, it, cartoon lol

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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	_	5 ducks	punct
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ducks	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ducks	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 ducks	advmod
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ducks	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 lol	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lol	det
12	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lol	compound
13	lol	lol	NOUN	_	8 saw	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lol	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	politicians	ducks		all property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	past	ducks	it	a cartoon lol		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present				true 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.

The options

Option 1

Cartoons are a kind of official news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 news	case
6	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 news	amod
7	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cartoons	a kind				of official news	tree rules

Option 2

All politicians are exactly like the cartoon, it's drawn from real life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 politicians	det
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cartoon	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cartoon	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 cartoon	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 cartoon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cartoon	det
7	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drawn	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drawn	nsubj:pass
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 drawn	aux
11	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cartoon	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 life	amod
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all politicians					like the cartoon; exactly property	tree rules
2	draw	present · passive	the cartoon not said here	cartoon		real life			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from life=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cartoons exaggerate on purpose, and real politicians differ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 exaggerate	nsubj
2	exaggerate	exaggerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 purpose	case
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exaggerate	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 differ	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 differ	cc
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 politicians	amod
8	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 differ	nsubj
9	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 exaggerate	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	present	Cartoons			purpose			tree rules
2	differ	present	real politicians						vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Politicians write all the cartoons about them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 write	nsubj
2	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cartoons	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cartoons	det
5	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 write	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cartoons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Politicians	all cartoons				about cartoons = cartoon	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cartoon=Recipient about they=Topic

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