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Test 1 · ★ · The politician's either-or and the straw man

Teen: "So if I don't like your plan, I hate kids? I literally am a kid. Make it make sense." What has the teen spotted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, your, you, plan · What happens: not like, hate, plan, be, make, have · To what, where: plan, kids, kid, sense, teen

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 178 «The politician's either-or and the straw man» of the world 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: Teen: "So if I don't like your plan, I hate kids?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teen	teen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Teen	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
4	So	so	ADV	_	9 like	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 like	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 like	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 like	advmod
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Teen	parataxis
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 plan	nmod:poss
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hate	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hate	nsubj
14	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 like	conj
15	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hate	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Teen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like in a quote	present · do-support	I	your plan					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plan=Theme
2	hate in a quote	present	I	kids					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus
3	plan in a quote		your						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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: I literally am a kid.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 kid	nsubj
2	literally	literally	ADV	_	5 kid	advmod
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kid	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a kid				literally property	tree rules

Sentence 3: Make it make sense."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	plan					tree rules
2	make	infinitive	plan not said here	sense					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product

Sentence 4: What has the teen spotted?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teen	det
4	teen	teen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 teen	acl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		the teen					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teen=Patient
2	spot	participle		the teen not said here					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A straw man about the army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 army	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 army	det
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An either-or: agree with me or you're bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 either	det
2	either	either	CCONJ	_	6 agree	cc:preconj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 or	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	2 either	cc
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 agree	punct
6	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 agree	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 bad	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 bad	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bad	cop
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 agree	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here					with me	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent
2	is	present	you					bad property	tree rules

Option 3

A fair argument that he lost, so he's annoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 argument	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 argument	amod
3	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 lost	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 argument	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 annoyed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 annoyed	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 annoyed	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 annoyed	cop
11	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 argument	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	a fair argument not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality
2	is	present	he					annoyed property	tree rules

Option 4

A red herring about football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 herring	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 herring	amod
3	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 football	case
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 herring	nmod

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

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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