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Test 5 · ★ · The politician's either-or and the straw man

Mum, at the telly: "That's lovely, love, but the question was about hospitals." What did the politician do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, question, politician · What happens: be, do

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Mum, at the telly: "That's lovely, love, but the question was about hospitals."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telly	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 telly	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 telly	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 telly	det
5	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 lovely	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 lovely	punct
8	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 lovely	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lovely	cop
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 telly	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 love	punct
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lovely	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hospitals	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 hospitals	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 question	det
16	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hospitals	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hospitals	cop
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 hospitals	case
19	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lovely	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 telly	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 telly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That					love vocative; lovely property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	the question					about hospitals	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.

Sentence 2: What did the politician do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 politician	det
4	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the politician						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Used a tiny sample of voters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sample	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sample	amod
4	sample	sample	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Used	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 voters	case
6	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sample	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past		a tiny sample of voters					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Patient
2	sample			voters					nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Made a slippery slope argument

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 argument	det
3	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 argument	amod
4	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 argument	compound
5	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		a slippery slope argument					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset argument=Product

Option 3

Answered the hospital question very well and fully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 question	det
3	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 question	compound
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Answered	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Answered	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fully	cc
8	fully	fully	ADV	_	6 well	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past		the hospital question				well property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dodged the question by changing the subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 question	det
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dodged	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 changing	mark
5	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Dodged	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 subject	det
7	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	past		the question					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent question=Location
2	change	gerund		the subject					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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