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Test 8 · ★★★ · Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim

An older cousin says, "Under-16 social media ban? Total rubbish." The teacher says, "It might help." How would a careful pupil describe it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older cousin, teacher, careful pupil · What happens: say, help, describe · To what, where: rubbish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: An older cousin says, "Under-16 social media ban?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cousin	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ban	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ban	punct
7	Under	under	ADP	_	12 ban	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Under	punct
9	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 ban	nummod
10	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ban	amod
11	media	media	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ban	compound
12	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a older cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: Total rubbish."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rubbish	amod
2	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rubbish	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 rubbish	punct

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

Sentence 3: The teacher says, "It might help."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help in a quote	might	teacher						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: How would a careful pupil describe it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 describe	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 describe	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pupil	det
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pupil	amod
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	nsubj
6	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 describe	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	would	a careful pupil	rubbish					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody disagrees about this at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 disagrees	nsubj
2	disagrees	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 disagrees	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 disagrees	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	Nobody			all		about this	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about this=Topic

Option 2

Only the cousin can be right, because he is older and uses social media

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 cousin	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cousin	det
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 right	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 right	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 older	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 older	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 older	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 older	cop
11	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 right	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 uses	cc
13	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 right	conj
14	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 media	amod
15	media	media	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	the cousin					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	he					old property	tree rules
3	use	present	the cousin not said here	social media					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent media=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some say it protects kids, others say it is hard to enforce

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 protects	nsubj
4	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 protects	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hard	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	cop
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 enforce	mark
13	enforce	enforce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hard	xcomp

#	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 clause=Topic
2	protect	present	it		kids				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	present	others						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present						hard property	tree rules
5	enforce	to-infinitive							vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only the teacher can be right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 teacher	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 right	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 right	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	the teacher					right property	tree rules

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