--- title: Whereas a participant in a debate responds to a question concerning… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics description: Whereas a participant in a debate responds to a question concerning school meals exclusively by discussing employment, identify the term for such conduct. Exam question 4 of lesson 11 «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/) / [Debates and rows on chat shows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Debates and rows on chat shows Whereas a participant in a debate responds to a question concerning school meals exclusively by discussing employment, identify the term for such conduct. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** question · **What happens:** respond, concern, discuss, identify · **To what, where:** school meals, employment, term This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:e4:1 # text = Whereas a participant in a debate responds to a question concerning school meals exclusively by discussing employment, identify the term for such conduct. 1 Whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 participant participant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 responds respond VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 concerning concern VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 exclusively exclusively ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 discussing discuss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 17 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 identify identify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 conduct conduct NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | present | | | | | | whereas a participant in a debate; to a question | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to question=Theme | | 2 | **concern** | gerund | a question *not said here* | school meals | | | | exclusively *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus meal=Experiencer | | 3 | **discuss** *speech: other* | gerund | a question *not said here* | employment | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Topic | | 4 | **identify** | infinitive | | the term | | | | for such conduct | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Canvassing ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:e4:o1:1 # text = Canvassing 1 Canvassing canvass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **canvass** | gerund | | | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Impartiality ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:e4:o2:1 # text = Impartiality 1 Impartiality impartiality NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Rebuttal ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:e4:o3:1 # text = Rebuttal 1 Rebuttal rebuttal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Pivoting ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows:e4:o4:1 # text = Pivoting 1 Pivoting pivot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pivot** | gerund | | | | | | | 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. 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