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title: Uncle in Boston, wicked mad: «look what this guy said, sharing it!!»… — Politicians and promises, as the news… · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle in Boston, wicked mad: «look what this guy said, sharing it!!» What should happen first? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 442 «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Politicians and promises, as the news reports them

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Uncle in Boston, wicked mad: «look what this guy said, sharing it!!» What should happen first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** guy · **What happens:** look, say, share, happen · **To what, where:** guy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 442 «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Uncle in Boston, wicked mad: «look what this guy said, sharing it!!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them:t1:1
# text = Uncle in Boston, wicked mad: «look what this guy said, sharing it!!»
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Boston	Boston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | this guy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **share** *in a quote* | gerund |  | guy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should happen first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them:t1:2
# text = What should happen first?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | should |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Check if real news sites report it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them:t1:o1:1
# text = Check if real news sites report it
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	report	report	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **report** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | real news sites | it |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Share it fast before somebody deletes it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them:t1:o2:1
# text = Share it fast before somebody deletes it
1	Share	share	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	deletes	delete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **delete** | present | somebody | it |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Believe it because it's a video

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them:t1:o3:1
# text = Believe it because it's a video
1	Believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | a video |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Reply angrily under the post

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them:t1:o4:1
# text = Reply angrily under the post
1	Reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the post |  | angrily *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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