Test 1 · Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth

Kid: "he's not fat he's big-boned, that's what his mum says lol" — what is the kid hinting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, that, mum, Kid · What happens: not be, bone, be, say, hint · To what, where: fat, kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 10 «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 fat	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fat	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fat	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fat	advmod
7	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kid	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 boned	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 boned	aux
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boned	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 big	punct
12	boned	bone	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fat	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 what	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Kid	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mum	nmod:poss
18	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
20	lol	lol	INTJ	_	19 says	discourse
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 lol	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 kid	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 kid	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 kid	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kid	det
26	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kid	conj
27	hinting	hint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 kid	acl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	he	fat	tree rules
2	bone in a quote	present · passive	he	fat not said here	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Source
3	is a in a quote	present	that		tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	his mum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	Kid and fat and the kid	the kid	tree rules
6	hint speech: other	gerund	the kid not said here		vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The boy is tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tall	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					tall property	tree rules

Option 2

The boy's mum is a doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mum	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doctor	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 doctor	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 doctor	det
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the boy's mum	a doctor					tree rules

Option 3

The boy has strong bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the boy	strong bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The boy is fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fat	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	cop
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					fat property	tree rules

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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