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title: In a cartoon, the loudest animal always speaks at the meeting and th… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, the loudest animal always speaks at the meeting and the little mouse never gets a turn. What would fix it? Test 8 of lesson 37 «School councils and class reps» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 8 · School councils and class reps

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In a cartoon, the loudest animal always speaks at the meeting and the little mouse never gets a turn. What would fix it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** loudest animal, little mouse · **What happens:** speak, not get, fix · **To what, where:** cartoon, turn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 37 «School councils and class reps» 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/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, the loudest animal always speaks at the meeting and the little mouse never gets a turn.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:37-school-councils-and-class-reps:t8:1
# text = In a cartoon, the loudest animal always speaks at the meeting and the little mouse never gets a turn.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the loudest animal |  |  | a cartoon |  | at the meeting; always *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **get** | present | the little mouse | a turn |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=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 would fix it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:37-school-councils-and-class-reps:t8:2
# text = What would fix it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | would |  | turn |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary it=Product |

## The options {#options}

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

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A chair who decides who speaks next

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:37-school-councils-and-class-reps:t8:o1:1
# text = A chair who decides who speaks next
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
6	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	next	next	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | present | a chair | a chair |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent who=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | a chair |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ending all meetings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:37-school-councils-and-class-reps:t8:o2:1
# text = Ending all meetings
1	Ending	end	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | gerund |  | all meetings |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meeting=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A louder mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:37-school-councils-and-class-reps:t8:o3:1
# text = A louder mouse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	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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More loud animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:37-school-councils-and-class-reps:t8:o4:1
# text = More loud animals
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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