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Test 6 · ★ · The politician's either-or and the straw man

In a cartoon a politician punches a scarecrow labelled "My opponent's plan" and the crowd cheers. What is the joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: politician, crowd, opponent, joke · What happens: punch, labell, cheer, plan, be · To what, where: scarecrow, cartoon

This is test 6 · ★ 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: In a cartoon a politician punches a scarecrow labelled "My opponent's plan" and the crowd cheers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 punches	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 politician	det
5	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 punches	nsubj
6	punches	punch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 scarecrow	det
8	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 punches	obj
9	labelled	labell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 scarecrow	acl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 plan	punct
11	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 opponent	nmod:poss
12	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 opponent	case
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 labelled	parataxis
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 plan	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cheers	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crowd	det
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cheers	nsubj
19	cheers	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 punches	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 punches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punch	present	a politician	a scarecrow		a cartoon			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Patient in cartoon=Location
2	labell	participle		a scarecrow not said here					tree rules
3	cheer	present	the crowd						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	plan in a quote		My opponent						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: What is the joke?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the joke						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He is beating an idea nobody actually holds

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 beating	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 beating	aux
3	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idea	det
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beating	obj
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 holds	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 holds	advmod
8	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present · progressive	He	a idea					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=Theme
2	hold	present	nobody	a idea not said here				actually property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme

Option 2

Punching scarecrows makes plans better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Punching	punch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	scarecrows	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Punching	obj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punch	gerund		scarecrows					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Patient
2	make	present	Punching	plans				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product

Option 3

The real opponent was a scarecrow all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 opponent	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opponent	amod
3	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scarecrow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scarecrow	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scarecrow	det
6	scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	6 scarecrow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the real opponent	a scarecrow				along property	tree rules

Option 4

Scarecrows are good at politics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scarecrows	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 good	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 politics	case
5	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Scarecrows			politics		good property	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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