Test 3 · ★ · President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street

Your little brother says, "The prime minister lives at Buckingham Palace, innit." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, prime minister, you · What happens: say, live, put · To what, where: Buckingham Palace, minister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 5 «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» 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 little brother says, "The prime minister lives at Buckingham Palace, innit."

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	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lives	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 lives	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 minister	det
8	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 minister	amod
9	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lives	nsubj
10	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 Palace	case
12	Buckingham	Buckingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Palace	compound
13	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lives	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Palace	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your little brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live in a quote	present	the prime minister			Buckingham Palace			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location

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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		minister			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1

The prime minister has no home and sleeps in Parliament

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
2	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minister	amod
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 home	det
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleeps	cc
8	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Parliament	case
10	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the prime minister	no home					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
2	sleep	present	the prime minister not said here			Parliament			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in parliament=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The prime minister's official home and office is 10 Downing Street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
2	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minister	amod
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 home	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 minister	case
5	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 home	amod
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Street	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 office	cc
8	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 home	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Street	cop
10	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 Street	nummod
11	Downing	Downing	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Street	compound
12	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the prime minister's official home and office	10 Downing Street					tree rules

Option 3

He's right, the King and the prime minister share rooms at the palace

The tree, 14 words

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	_	6 King	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rooms	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rooms	det
9	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rooms	amod
10	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 share	compound
11	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rooms	compound
12	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 King	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The prime minister lives in the White House

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
2	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minister	amod
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 House	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 House	det
7	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 House	amod
8	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the prime minister			the White House			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/t3/