--- title: The teacher says, "Ireland has a president." Which card? — Checking practice: true, false and not… · tree and pragmatics description: The teacher says, "Ireland has a president." Which card? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/t11/) [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/) / [Checking practice: true, false and not…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet The teacher says, "Ireland has a president." Which card? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher, Ireland · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** president · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* The teacher says, "Ireland has a president." ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t11:1 # text = The teacher says, "Ireland has a president." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Ireland | a president | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which card? ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t11:2 # text = Which card? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} FALSE ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t11:o1:1 # text = FALSE 1 FALSE false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} JOKE ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t11:o2:1 # text = JOKE 1 JOKE joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} TRUE ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t11:o3:1 # text = TRUE 1 TRUE true NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} NOT SURE ```conllu # sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t11:o4:1 # text = NOT SURE 1 NOT not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 SURE sure VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sure** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | 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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