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title: "politicians are all ducks, I saw it in a cartoon lol" — what is true? — Putting it together: explain each side… · tree and pragmatics
description: "politicians are all ducks, I saw it in a cartoon lol" — what is true? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 ri
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim

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"politicians are all ducks, I saw it in a cartoon lol" — what is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** politicians, ducks · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** ducks, it, cartoon lol

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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/40-putting-it-together/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:40-putting-it-together:t5:1
# text = "politicians are all ducks, I saw it in a cartoon lol" — what is true?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lol	lol	NOUN	NN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | politicians | ducks |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | ducks | it |  | a cartoon lol |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Cartoons are a kind of official news

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:40-putting-it-together:t5:o1:1
# text = Cartoons are a kind of official news
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cartoons | a kind |  |  |  | of official news | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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All politicians are exactly like the cartoon, it's drawn from real life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:40-putting-it-together:t5:o2:1
# text = All politicians are exactly like the cartoon, it's drawn from real life
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all politicians |  |  |  |  | like the cartoon; exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | present · passive | the cartoon *not said here* | cartoon |  | real life |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from life=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Cartoons exaggerate on purpose, and real politicians differ

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:40-putting-it-together:t5:o3:1
# text = Cartoons exaggerate on purpose, and real politicians differ
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exaggerate	exaggerate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exaggerate** | present | Cartoons |  |  | purpose |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **differ** | present | real politicians |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Politicians write all the cartoons about them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:40-putting-it-together:t5:o4:1
# text = Politicians write all the cartoons about them
1	Politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Politicians | all cartoons |  |  |  | about cartoons *= cartoon* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cartoon=Recipient about they=Topic |

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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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