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Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★

One report says "brave heroes defend our town", another says "angry mob blocks roads", about the same march. What can both probably agree on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: One report, brave heroes, another, angry mob · What happens: say, defend, block, agree · To what, where: town, roads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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: One report says "brave heroes defend our town", another says "angry mob blocks roads", about the same march.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 report	nummod
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 defend	punct
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heroes	amod
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 defend	nsubj
7	defend	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 town	nmod:poss
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 defend	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 defend	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
12	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 blocks	punct
15	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mob	amod
16	mob	mob	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blocks	nsubj
17	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
18	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blocks	obj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 roads	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 march	punct
21	about	about	ADV	_	24 march	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 march	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 march	amod
24	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blocks	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	One report						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	defend in a quote	present	brave heroes	our town					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	present	another						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	block in a quote	present	angry mob	roads					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme

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 can both probably agree on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 agree	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 agree	aux
3	both	both	ADV	_	5 agree	advmod
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 agree	advmod
5	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 agree	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	can						both, probably property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody marched at all that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 marched	nsubj
2	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 marched	obl
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marched	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	Nobody			all	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2

The marchers were all heroes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 marchers	det
2	marchers	marcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heroes	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heroes	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 heroes	det
5	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the marchers	all heroes					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

People marched in the town that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 marched	nsubj
2	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marched	obl
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marched	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	People			the town	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Trajectory

Option 4

The marchers were all a mob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 marchers	det
2	marchers	marcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mob	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mob	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 mob	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mob	det
6	mob	mob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the marchers	all mob					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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