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description: Dinner goes silent after Dylan's aunt and uncle argue about guns. What is the best thing to remember? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 22 «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★ · Guns, school safety and arguments about schools

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Dinner goes silent after Dylan's aunt and uncle argue about guns. What is the best thing to remember?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dinner, aunt, best thing · **What happens:** go, argue, be, remember

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 22 «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dinner goes silent after Dylan's aunt and uncle argue about guns.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t10:1
# text = Dinner goes silent after Dylan's aunt and uncle argue about guns.
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	Dylan	Dylan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Dinner |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Dylan's aunt and uncle |  |  |  |  | about guns | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about gun=Topic |

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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 is the best thing to remember?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t10:2
# text = What is the best thing to remember?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the best thing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive | the best thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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One of them must want children harmed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t10:o1:1
# text = One of them must want children harmed
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | must | One of them | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **harm** *not said to happen* | participle | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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When both want children safe, the argument is about how to get there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t10:o2:1
# text = When both want children safe, the argument is about how to get there
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:outer	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | both | children |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot child=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the argument |  |  | there |  | get *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gun laws are not something people disagree about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t10:o3:1
# text = Gun laws are not something people disagree about
1	Gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Gun laws | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disagree** | present | people |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only politicians are allowed to talk about guns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t10:o4:1
# text = Only politicians are allowed to talk about guns
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present · passive |  | politicians |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | politicians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about guns | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about gun=Topic |

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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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