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title: Dylan sees a donkey sticker on a car and an elephant on his uncle's… — US elections and the president, as rep… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dylan sees a donkey sticker on a car and an elephant on his uncle's cap. What do they show? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 16 «US elections and the president, as reported» 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · US elections and the president, as reported

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dylan sees a donkey sticker on a car and an elephant on his uncle's cap. What do they show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dylan, sticker · **What happens:** see, show · **To what, where:** donkey sticker, car

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 16 «US elections and the president, as reported» 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/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dylan sees a donkey sticker on a car and an elephant on his uncle's cap.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported:t8:1
# text = Dylan sees a donkey sticker on a car and an elephant on his uncle's cap.
1	Dylan	Dylan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sticker	sticker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Dylan | a donkey sticker and a elephant |  | a car |  | on Dylan's uncle's cap | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sticker=Stimulus |

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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 do they show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported:t8:2
# text = What do they show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | sticker |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Which state they live in, since each state has its own animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported:t8:o1:1
# text = Which state they live in, since each state has its own animal
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live in** | present | they | which state *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme state=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | which state | state's own animal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which of the two big parties each one supports

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported:t8:o2:1
# text = Which of the two big parties each one supports
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	supports	support	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **support** | present | each one | the two big parties *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer party=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Their favourite zoo animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported:t8:o3:1
# text = Their favourite zoo animals
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That they work on a farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported:t8:o4:1
# text = That they work on a farm
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | That |  |  |  |  | on a farm | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme |

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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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