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title: "my grandad says dogs are banned in flats next yr, so it's true inni… — Checking practice: true, false and not… · tree and pragmatics
description: "my grandad says dogs are banned in flats next yr, so it's true innit" — he cannot say where he read it. Which pile? Test 4 · ★★ 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
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet

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"my grandad says dogs are banned in flats next yr, so it's true innit" — he cannot say where he read it. Which pile?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grandad, it · **What happens:** say, ban, be, not say, read · **To what, where:** dogs, flats, true innit, innit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "my grandad says dogs are banned in flats next yr, so it's true innit" — he cannot say where he read it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t4:1
# text = "my grandad says dogs are banned in flats next yr, so it's true innit" — he cannot say where he read it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flats	flat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	yr	year	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | my grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ban** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | dogs |  | flats | year |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | it | true innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | can | grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **read** | past | grandad | innit |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:* Which pile?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t4:2
# text = Which pile?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Not sure yet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t4:o1:1
# text = Not sure yet
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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True

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t4:o2:1
# text = True
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t4:o3:1
# text = A joke
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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False

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t4:o4:1
# text = False
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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