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title: Fatima's dad, a nurse, gets upset when the news talks about nurses'… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fatima's dad, a nurse, gets upset when the news talks about nurses' pay. Why? Test 6 of lesson 14 «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Test 6 · Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics

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Fatima's dad, a nurse, gets upset when the news talks about nurses' pay. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad, news, nurses · **What happens:** get, talk, pay

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This is test 6 of lesson 14 «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics 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/politics/14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Fatima's dad, a nurse, gets upset when the news talks about nurses' pay.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics:t6:1
# text = Fatima's dad, a nurse, gets upset when the news talks about nurses' pay.
1	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Fatima's dad and a nurse |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **talk** | present | the news |  |  |  |  | about nurses's pay | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pay=Topic |
| 3 | **pay** |  | nurses |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics:t6:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nurses are not allowed to watch TV at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics:t6:o1:1
# text = Nurses are not allowed to watch TV at all
1	Nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | Nurses |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **watch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nurses *not said here* | TV |  | all |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The decision touches his own job

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics:t6:o2:1
# text = The decision touches his own job
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present | the decision | decision's own job |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme job=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **job** |  | decision |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He wants to be a politician one day soon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics:t6:o3:1
# text = He wants to be a politician one day soon
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	politician	politician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | He |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a politician |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He hates the news reader on that channel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics:t6:o4:1
# text = He hates the news reader on that channel
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hates	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | He | the news reader |  | that channel |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reader=Stimulus |

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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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