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title: The news calls a protest "mostly peaceful with some violence". A boy… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics
description: The news calls a protest "mostly peaceful with some violence". A boy says, "So every single person there was violent." What is better? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 38 «Protests, petitions and young activists» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 5 · ★ · Protests, petitions and young activists

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The news calls a protest "mostly peaceful with some violence". A boy says, "So every single person there was violent." What is better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** news, boy, single person · **What happens:** call, say, be · **To what, where:** protest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 38 «Protests, petitions and young activists» 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/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The news calls a protest "mostly peaceful with some violence".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists:t5:1
# text = The news calls a protest "mostly peaceful with some violence".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | the news | a protest |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent protest=Recipient |

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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:* A boy says, "So every single person there was violent."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists:t5:2
# text = A boy says, "So every single person there was violent."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	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	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | every single person |  |  |  |  | violent *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What is better?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists:t5:3
# text = What is better?
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	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	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 |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nobody there broke anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists:t5:o1:1
# text = Nobody there broke anything
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | Nobody | anything |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The news made the whole protest up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists:t5:o2:1
# text = The news made the whole protest up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	protest	protest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the news |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **protest up** *speech: disagree* | present | the whole |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Most were peaceful while a few broke things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists:t5:o3:1
# text = Most were peaceful while a few broke things
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	broke	broke	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Everyone there broke windows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists:t5:o4:1
# text = Everyone there broke windows
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | Everyone | windows |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient |

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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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