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title: "your idea's well dumb, bruv" — what is a better way to disagree? — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics
description: "your idea's well dumb, bruv" — what is a better way to disagree? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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.
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Arguing politely and never calling names

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"your idea's well dumb, bruv" — what is a better way to disagree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** idea · **What happens:** be, disagree · **To what, where:** better way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t1:1
# text = "your idea's well dumb, bruv" — what is a better way to disagree?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your idea |  |  |  |  | bruv *vocative*; dumb, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a better way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disagree** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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"Your face is dumb too."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t1:o1:1
# text = "Your face is dumb too."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your face |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Saying nothing and sulking for a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t1:o2:1
# text = Saying nothing and sulking for a week
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sulking	sulk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **sulk** | gerund |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Whatever, loser."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t1:o3:1
# text = "Whatever, loser."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	det:predet	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	loser	loser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"I don't agree, and here's why..."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t1:o4:1
# text = "I don't agree, and here's why..."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |

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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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