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description: Hannah messages from Manchester: «our kid's well mardy, says UK coppers carry guns everywhere.» What is true? Test 11 · ★ 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 eac
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# Test 11 · ★ · Guns, school safety and arguments about schools

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Hannah messages from Manchester: «our kid's well mardy, says UK coppers carry guns everywhere.» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** UK coppers · **What happens:** say, carry, be · **To what, where:** guns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Hannah messages from Manchester: «our kid's well mardy, says UK coppers carry guns everywhere.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t11:1
# text = Hannah messages from Manchester: «our kid's well mardy, says UK coppers carry guns everywhere.»
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	mardy	mardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	coppers	copper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **carry** *in a quote* | present | UK coppers | guns |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |

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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 true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t11:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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UK police officers carry swords instead of guns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t11:o1:1
# text = UK police officers carry swords instead of guns
1	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | police officers | swords |  |  |  | instead guns | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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UK police are not allowed handcuffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t11:o2:1
# text = UK police are not allowed handcuffs
1	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	handcuffs	handcuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | UK police |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal handcuff=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Every UK police officer carries a gun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t11:o3:1
# text = Every UK police officer carries a gun
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
2	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | every UK police officer | a gun |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Most UK police officers do not carry guns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools:t11:o4:1
# text = Most UK police officers do not carry guns
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **carry** | present · do-support | police officers | guns |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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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